Wireless network inside of another Wireless network?

[helppls]

Hi, here's my situation:

Internet -> Wireless appartment network -> Wireless network of my home computers


Is it possible to set up a router on the second arrow so that all of my home computers could have Internet access? I'm pretty sure I could do it if the appartment network was wired, but it's not... I have a 100% dd-wrt compatible router.

Thanks!

 

[Goosemaster]

to but it succinctly, no.

Seeing as how it is an apartment network, it is setup as an access point in a normal fashion. To feed wireless from one AP to another it has to be setup in ad-hoc mode. Even then, you will still be on the same logical network.

As for solutions, if you can setup a computer to be a wireless client to the apartment network, then your could out a wireless router behind it....

hmmm...I wonder if a wireless game adapter + switch would work....

 

[Talcite]

you could set up one system as your "router" couldn't you? Have it connect to the internet, then bridge that connection across to your own wireless network?

 

[skyking]

^ in a nutshell, what he said.
You could do it with two wireless routers.

Router 1, set as a client to apartment network. You will need a router that supports client mode. I hate to say the cliche', but it is easy to do with an older flashable linksys.
Plug a cable into one of the LAN ports on router 1.
Router 2, plug the other end of that cable into the WAN port.

Make sure your internal network and the apartment network are two different class C's.

For example, if you are getting 192.168.blah.blah addresses now, set the second router's local address as 10.whatever .blah .blah