First, a picture, drawn with my awesome skill in MS paint: Picture
It isn't exactly drawn to scale. My friend owns a "barn," (more like a storage building with a very nice upstairs), but we have no internet there. That's marked as letter B on the picture. Luckily, friend also owns home A. Unfortunately, home A is pretty far away - a few houses down, whatever that equates too...I'm bad with distances.
There's also a few trees in the way, but nothing too bad.
So here's what we're thinking - we'll build something like this antenna made from an old satellite dish, or we could just buy a directional antenna. That should give us more than enough range.
However, what we need is to be able to connect many computers and Xbox 360s to this network, and almost everything I can find about this is just ways to hook it up to your laptop (presumably for wardriving). We do have some extra routers laying around, one of which may be a WRT-54g - or one of the newer versions, it's an hour away at the moment so I can't just look at the thing.
So I'm guessing I'll need to put DD-WRT or Tomato on it, but past that I'm a little confused. I don't know what mode i'll need to put it in, and it's going to be awfully hard to set up this router without being able to scan for wireless networks while we're moving it, unless that functionality somehow exists?
I'd really appreciate some help filling in these blanks as I won't have the internet handy when we're trying this, and I've done about 3 hours of reading and I'm still confused. Thanks!
Edit: Would it be possible to hook up an antenna to a computer there with a wifi card and use internet connection sharing to a switch to distribute the internet goodies to everything in the room?
It isn't exactly drawn to scale. My friend owns a "barn," (more like a storage building with a very nice upstairs), but we have no internet there. That's marked as letter B on the picture. Luckily, friend also owns home A. Unfortunately, home A is pretty far away - a few houses down, whatever that equates too...I'm bad with distances.
There's also a few trees in the way, but nothing too bad.
So here's what we're thinking - we'll build something like this antenna made from an old satellite dish, or we could just buy a directional antenna. That should give us more than enough range.
However, what we need is to be able to connect many computers and Xbox 360s to this network, and almost everything I can find about this is just ways to hook it up to your laptop (presumably for wardriving). We do have some extra routers laying around, one of which may be a WRT-54g - or one of the newer versions, it's an hour away at the moment so I can't just look at the thing.
So I'm guessing I'll need to put DD-WRT or Tomato on it, but past that I'm a little confused. I don't know what mode i'll need to put it in, and it's going to be awfully hard to set up this router without being able to scan for wireless networks while we're moving it, unless that functionality somehow exists?
I'd really appreciate some help filling in these blanks as I won't have the internet handy when we're trying this, and I've done about 3 hours of reading and I'm still confused. Thanks!
Edit: Would it be possible to hook up an antenna to a computer there with a wifi card and use internet connection sharing to a switch to distribute the internet goodies to everything in the room?
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