Re: Wireless Networking Problemo


<dab722@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Right now I am in Barcelona, Spain. I live in a place where two
> apartments are joined together. It is in the gothic quarter of the
> city and the walls are typically thick here.
>
> My neighbours have a proprietary wirelss router from Telefonica. It
> also serves up their cable. They want to share the wireless for me but
> it appears my side of the apartment is some sort of nether region where
> the signal doesn't not go. Running an thernet cable is not feasable.
>
> I thought about getting a repeater but telefonica claims you need their
> repeater and in some cases with repeaters you have to go with the same
> brand as the router.
>
> I was wondering if the following would be successful. Run some
> ethernet cable from the router to part way towards my space (thats
> allowed).
>
> On the other end of the ethernet cable I propose putting a Linksys
> Access Point. The linksys access point can then serve another wireless
> signal and obtain its IP from the telefonica router.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bert
>

"They want to share the wireless for me" don't you just love it............

reworded this means, I want to share their wireless with me



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