WiFi over lan?

dtokez · 23 Jun 2011 at 13:21

Hi, I'm considering asking my neighbour if I could share his internet connection.

Is there any way in which I could pick up his WiFi signal, and feed it into my LAN with a router or something? I would rather have a piece of hardware do the sharing instead of having to leave a machine on for it to share the connection?

cheers

IPAddis · 23 Jun 2011 at 13:33

You would need a Wireless Bridge. Connects a wired network to a wireless network.

Can't see any on OC to link to.

23JMZ07 · 23 Jun 2011 at 13:35

DDWRT firmware supports this.

Do you already have a wireless router?

dtokez · 23 Jun 2011 at 13:40

I do have a spare Netgear one at home bud, not sure on the model though I can't recall?

23JMZ07 · 23 Jun 2011 at 13:42

Find out the model

dtokez · 23 Jun 2011 at 14:19

Will have a look when I finish work cheers mate

is it fairly straight forward to get going or hard work?

paradigm · 23 Jun 2011 at 14:23

danrogers said:
Will have a look when I finish work cheers mate

is it fairly straight forward to get going or hard work?

Assuming the router supports (or you can install firmware that supports) wireless bridging, then it's as simple as connecting any wireless client.

SSID and key are all that should be needed.