Re: Wireless Networking Problemo

dab722@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> 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?

That should work. I have a netgear wireless router near my cable
modem, and then an ethernet cable to a Linksys AP on the other side of
our house.

They are on different channels, and have different SSIDs, and I use
whichever one has the stronger signal depending on where I am.
.

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