Hmm, this is a little trickey to explain, but I'll do my best to be clear. There's a small shed/office nearby our house which my parents use for their work, it has a working broadband connection, but the house doesn't. Yesterday I set up a wireless router in the shed, and a wireless card in my pc which I had hoped would let me access the broadband. As it happens, there's a few brick walls in the way, and it's kind of on the edge the the router's range anyway (range is about 100m, shed is about 80m away), so I can't pick it up. But if I move the pc to an upstairs room, which is in direct line of sight of the shed I can pick it up. I'm thinking if I can get something to pick up and retransmit the signal from that room, I should be able to get it (there'll only be a ceiling to get through then). So here's my questions, will I need to set up another router, or will a bridge do? I've read that a bridge just connects two networks, but the broadbandless pc hasn't got a router, just the ariel to recieve, so it's not broadcasting a network (I don't think it is anyway :S ) so would that still work? If not, and I have to get a second wireless router, there's no computer in the room which can pick up the signal, does a wireless router have to be connected to a computer to work properly? Last question, I have a 811somethingorother B router broadcasting from the shed, is this compatible with a 811somethingorother G ariel/bridge/second router? The card I got for the recieving pc is compatible with both, so that's no problem, but I'll need to know what type of router/bridge to buy.
Thanks a million, and fair play to you for reading through all this crap.
Thanks a million, and fair play to you for reading through all this crap.