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I am renting a room in a house, that has communal wireless internet access, WPA2 PSK. When I am in the lounge I get coverage for my laptop, good speed. When I move into my bedroom, I get 1 bar of signal and very, very weak coverage/reception.
I would like to install a wireless router in my bedroom to pick up the signal from the communal wireless router, and attach my laptop via Ethernet to the 2nd router in my bedroom. I don't play games or stream video, not enough bandwidth for such, we have 384kbps line out here.
Is this possible? From what I have seen it should be possible, and this website explains in a clear way how to do it. I am just waiting for the 2nd router to be dropped off.
2012-12-12 03:57:37
Your setup will work fine, but if your computer can not pick up the signal, the router cant pick the signal up as well. Also are you sure your router can pick up a wifi signal and turn it into ethernet? I recommend you have your router in the lounge and get a long ethernet cable to your bedroom (if possible). That is the only sollution I can think of. Unless you can affor a powerline router which sends internet through the mains power
2012-11-15 08:52:52
Yeah you can. I think they made the mini-airport for that purpose.
2012-11-03 22:07:16
I would go with a wired option, however that doesn't answer your question. It dounds possible in theory but as others have said you won't gain much in practice... sorry for the not-answer answer
2012-10-12 19:51:22
Another solution could be a powerline adapter to send the signal from the router to the other room. See the TP-Link Powerline Adapter , the price is good , also performance and stability are excellent.
2012-10-12 04:45:04
Yes you can but you have will have to move the primary router someplace near the bedroom to get a better reception
2012-10-10 19:35:45
If your new wireless router doesn't support bridge mode out of the box, I would recommend installing DD-WRT or Tomato on it.
2012-10-08 02:52:57
yes it is possible
2012-10-07 16:47:15
Yes, definitely possible, see if in the settings of the secondary router if there is a "repeater" option or something similar.
2012-10-07 14:45:37
sounds like a classic wireless bridge setup ~ so yes, should be possibleBut I'm afraid it won't solve your problem. The router in your bedroom won't have a better connection to the wireless network than your MBP in the same room.This setup only makes sense if you move the bridge in a better position e.g. outside the bedroom where it gets a better signal and then connect your MBP to it using a cable. Otherwise you just "move" the problem of a weak signal from your MBP to the bridge/client mode router.
2012-10-07 08:48:09
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