Wifi signal boosting (from Spanish bar)

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Sledgehammer

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Just wondered if anyone can offer some advice on how to boost someone else's free wifi. A friend has a house in Spain, but only goes over every 2-3 months for a week so pointless having Internet. But the bar 100yrds down road has free wifi, is there such a thing that he can plug something in at his house and it will amplify that wifi signal.. It's only for small data like blooming Facebook and home CCTV..

And he does go to the bar frequently. But wants to view CCTV from home..
 
Google wok-fi or cantenna :)

Although I would be careful about using someone else wifi even if it is free, sure if you want to browse now and again, but setting up a CCTV system over it which I am assuming he is going to use to monitor it whilst he was not in the country ? Or do you mean cctv at home in uk?

Maybe if you politely asked, explained the situation to the owner and pop him a few quid for the hassle, keep bandwidth to a minimum
 
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To make a Pringles-Fi you will need the following ingredients:

1x USB extension lead
1x USB WiFi dongle
1x empty Pringles tube

Instructions:

A) Make a hole in the back quarter of the pringles tube to allow the WiFi dongle to fit in, secure the dongle to the tube.
B) Connect USB dongle to USB extension lead
C) Connect USB extension lead to computer.
D) Place Pringles-Fi in direct line of sight of the WiFi signal you wish to boost.
E) Profit.
 
No apparently Internet over there is pretty costly and he has CCTV in UK, but wants to view it whilst he is in Spain.. He keeps parrots and likes to keep an eye on them..

Just thought there was a way, remember an aerial on gadget show ages ago, but that would really require a pc. He just wants to use his phone on the bars wifi at the house..
 
A mains powered Wifi repeater costs around £25.
Obviously no matter what method you choose it will only work if the signal can reach the device in the first place - I doubt you are going to get 100 yards unless you put the extender halfway between the 2 points.
 
Here's my backup internet

1 - Old laptop acts as a router, Primary router dynamically switches route when needed
2 - Alfa AWUS036H (this is the old b/g version which is much more disireable)
3 - Yagi for a tenner off the bay

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The only other way is to have a High Power Router like a Buffalo flashed with dd-wrt running as client mode (will definitely still need a cantenna or yagi attached to it).

Whilst in client mode you connect your laptop or pc using an ethernet cable
 
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