Sharing WiFi between two houses!

rscosworth

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Guys,

Im moving into a new house 4 doors along from my parents, currently they pay around £12 a month for broadband access and use their laptop at most 3hours a week.

I sign up to Virgin 4mb service and use a Belkin Gigabit router.

What i would like to be able to do is cancel my parents broadband supplier and be able to use mine, as i havent moved in yet im not able to check signal strengths but id say the distance is around 40metres and through some brick walls.

Does anyone have any suggestions to allow me to keep my Gig router but also be able to have my parents pick up my connection?

Cheers
 
Is the gigabit router wireless? If not it would probably be better just to pick up a wireless adsl modem / router job from one of the big names.

At 40m through brick walls you might have trouble with signal tbh. You'd probably need a descent (maybe directional) antenna at either end (probably easier at your end tbh).

Thing is you won't know exactly what you'll need to get untill you've moved in.
 
Have a look at one of those rangemasters, i hear they are really good at very large distances and go through quite a few walls, but yeah unfortunately you wont know till you get in the house.
 
If they have a laptop its probably easier for them to come and sit on your sofa to do their surfing for 3 hours

Currently im next door but one to my parents and we both have wireless connections but i cant even pick his up let alone get a good signal and its the same his end. Distance is 10 meters at most
 
the belkin gigabit router is also 54G, forgot to mention,,,,,

could change router for one which accepts an add on antenna, would that work?

cheers
 
What might be an idea.

An antenna on your house, on the roof, one at their house (roof again) fed straight into your and theie routers.

That will prove the best signal.
 
rscosworth said:
Guys,

Im moving into a new house 4 doors along from my parents, currently they pay around £12 a month for broadband access and use their laptop at most 3hours a week.

I sign up to Virgin 4mb service and use a Belkin Gigabit router.

What i would like to be able to do is cancel my parents broadband supplier and be able to use mine, as i havent moved in yet im not able to check signal strengths but id say the distance is around 40metres and through some brick walls.

Does anyone have any suggestions to allow me to keep my Gig router but also be able to have my parents pick up my connection?

Cheers
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Be warned this is actually illegal , unless you receive presmission from the ISP.

Chances are if the houses are of the the more modern variety, then you may get away with the signal if you keep your router in a fairly open place. Remeber and put encryption on and disable adminastrative shares on your pc.
 
Swordfish said:
Be warned this is actually illegal , unless you receive presmission from the ISP.

Chances are if the houses are of the the more modern variety, then you may get away with the signal if you keep your router in a fairly open place. Remeber and put encryption on and disable adminastrative shares on your pc.
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His ISP won't know know what he is doing people download all sort on the internet and there ISP's don't do nothing some send letters if a company tells them that one of there customers is downloading things illegally.
 
yep just put a wireless aerial out of a window in their house, then get a wireless extender and a reciever out of your window.

will work fine.

we set one up at my auntys house as it was easier to make the signal go outside of the house than to try and make it go thorugh 10 1ft thick internal walls lol.

you'd be looking at atleast £80 quid for that kit though :)
 
you can get aerial doublers for the routers that have changeable aerials. Purchase one, run a lead from it to an aerial for your internal network, and one to the outside to any decent high gain aerial (£6-10) - and have another high gain aerial on the outside of their house, running into their hardware, but in a reasonable line-of-sight with the aerial on your house. Job's a goodun.
 
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