Increasing the range of a wireless network.

[Phalanx]

Good evening fellows.

My house has a wireless network and recently somebody moved into the flat nextdoor (it's basically a collection of rooms seperated by a partition).

Anyways, the person living there needs the internet (don't we all) and unfortunately for them, the network doesn't reach into there.

My networking geek friend told me to get one of these:



A Belkin Gaming Adapter and said that it will act as a bridge and increase the range of the network.

It arrived today and I've put it all around the house and it doesn't seem to have made any difference at all (the means of setting it up are so simple I can't see how you could fail).

So I was wondering if there's anything I can do to fix this problem? I mean, I'm starting to think the partition runs with lead or something because the internet actually works at the door (this is outdoors) to the flat but nowhere at all inside.

Thanks

[Kumagoro]

Will using the electrical wiring in the place instead work in this case I wonder
All you need to do is plug one of these in your place and connect it via Ethernet to your router and then he plugs
the other one in his place etc. You wont even have to do anything as they automatically work.

http://scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=843141

I have these for use with my sling box and they work very well.

[Guy]

A bridge isnt what you need, a bridge is more useful for connecting a device to the network that doesnt have a wireless card/built in wi-fi.

What you would want to extend the range of a network is something like this

http://www-uk.linksys.com/servlet/Sa...=8251960558B48

[haku]

I don't have experience with this Belkin Gaming adapter but if it can act as a wireless bridge or in AP mode then it can definitely hook up to your existing wireless network. Its just a matter of configuring the device properly. By definition a network bridge connects two networks together. So, if you put your wireless bridge(gaming adapter) on the same network as your personal wireless router then it should start passing traffic through the bridge. After the wireless bridge connection is setup your neighbor's machine when connected to the AP should see your wireless network right away. It should even get a DHCP lease from your main wireless router, if the machine is configured to do so i.e.


Cheers.