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Making a secondary wireless network that pulls internet access from an existing wireless network

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Pandamonium

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I'm apartment shopping, and some places offer free Wifi. If I lived in such a building, I want a private wifi network for me. Can a wireless access point share the internet connection from the free Wifi into a private network for me? Also, if I bought a draft N AP, could my internal network operate at N speeds while connected online at G speeds?
 
Transfer of files between your computers might be at N, but the Internet would stay at its original capacity.
 
Have you use a draft N AP to set up an internal network? I've only used routers to split from an ethernet; I'm wondering if normal APs can do some routing or if I have to find a special router that can pull a wireless signal. What should I be looking for?
 
Look for a wireless bridge, not an access point per se, to connect to the wireless Internet service and share that to the rest of the network. I'd suggest running DD-WRT on a compatible device such as the Asus WL-520gU in client mode.

For the internal network, DD-WRT can also do a form of repeating in addition to bridging, but I'd suggest getting a second access point or wireless router running as an access point for that part.
 
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