How can I convert FON wifi to my wired lan?

steinooo

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Hi all,

After a monster ****-up by BT and Tesco Broadband I am without web now for at least a week, while I wait for Infinity.

I can however access my neighbour's FON network.

Can you think of a way of making my router (TG842n) into a kind of repeater for this wifi across my wired lan?

I don't think my router is very hackable but I have windows 7 and Linux boxes I could use to hash something together
 
I had a similar situation but ended up relying on the solution for 7 weeks while BT got their act together.

I used a £10 USB dongle to connect to BT FON and then ICS to share It with my devices,via wallplugs but a 4-port router etc should do.
 
mick take of a company aren't they mate. My order was a simple switch from Tesco!

Thanks never thought of Windows ICS, with a cable into the router, I wil give that a go, thanks for the reply
 
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I thought you had to sign into a FON network? I dont see how a hardware bridge would ever connect to one.
 
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Jez said:
I thought you had to sign into a FON network? I dont see how a hardware bridge would ever connect to one.
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You do have to sign into FON, I still thought it could be possible if I hard coded my password into the firmware in some kind of answer script. Looks like one person has done it but for a different application to me, that's for a failover for his primary connection but I can't work out how to just get it serving my wired lan, I have little interest in the wireless repeating part.

The bit I fall over with is where he sets a static route for the 192.168.22.0/23 network, I'm simply unsure where to do that in DD-WRT
 
As I remember, Do a wireless 'site survey'.

Join the FON network.

Choose 'Gateway' mode.

There's some YouTube Videos on this..

The important part is 'Gateway'
 
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