Anyway to "piggyback" your wifi network?

[swbsam]

I have 6 computers in my apartment and 5 of them have perfect signal strength, other than the PC in my bedroom (That's used as a HTPC, on the polar opposite side of the house). I can't move my router to the middle of the apartment because of my xbox 360 that's in the living room and hooked up to it.. Here's the layout:



Bedroom HTPC( poor signal) ------ Imac in office - great signal -------Router (hooked up to xbox in living room


(the other thee computers are a mac book, a macbook pro, and an msi wind that all have pretty decent signals)


Is there any way for the bedroom PC to share wifi from the office computer and not the router, since the iMac is in the middle of my apartment?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Get a wireless bridge (I use a buffalo router with dd-wrt on it), and hook up to that with an ethernet cable. Then put the router somewhere that gets decent signal.

 

[TheStu]

Along the same lines, my friends and I vacation at a house in Delaware every summer, and the owners have told us in the past that the house has wifi, however it doesn't reach all of the house.

Now, here is the kicker, we don't know where the router is (for all we know i could be at a neighbor's house). Is there a way to wirelessly repeat the signal? We have routers available to us that are dual band and/or MIMO, outputting an incoming signal shouldn't be a technical problem.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TheStu
Along the same lines, my friends and I vacation at a house in Delaware every summer, and the owners have told us in the past that the house has wifi, however it doesn't reach all of the house.

Now, here is the kicker, we don't know where the router is (for all we know i could be at a neighbor's house). Is there a way to wirelessly repeat the signal? We have routers available to us that are dual band and/or MIMO, outputting an incoming signal shouldn't be a technical problem.

WARNING: The following is a hack. 🙂

Use two routers. One as a client bridge (dd-wrt or similar), and the other as a wireless access point. Hook them up with cat5, and put the bridge router someplace that gets a decent signal. Put the second router in an area that can provide for the less fortunate areas of the home.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: TheStu
Along the same lines, my friends and I vacation at a house in Delaware every summer, and the owners have told us in the past that the house has wifi, however it doesn't reach all of the house.

Now, here is the kicker, we don't know where the router is (for all we know i could be at a neighbor's house). Is there a way to wirelessly repeat the signal? We have routers available to us that are dual band and/or MIMO, outputting an incoming signal shouldn't be a technical problem.

WARNING: The following is a hack. 🙂

Use two routers. One as a client bridge (dd-wrt or similar), and the other as a wireless access point. Hook them up with cat5, and put the bridge router someplace that gets a decent signal. Put the second router in an area that can provide for the less fortunate areas of the home.

Well, that should work, we happen to have an available Linksys WRT54g that just got replaced with a Netgear N router. We can hook the Linksys up to my friend's Airport Extreme (either that or the netgear probably have the best range in the group and the airport extreme is dual band) and we should be golden. Thanks n0c.

 

[Modelworks]

The easiest way to add distance to a wifi connection is replacing the antenna on either end or both. Also cheap. Antennas are about $10 each.
http://www.data-alliance.net/s...erial-9dbi-OMNI/Detail