Wireless network bridging
Living next to Daniel and Celeste has come with some perks, one of which is the ability to share a network, useful for iTunes library sharing, inter-house gaming and Internet sharing. There’s a terrace house between us (all double brick), which makes the wireless signal strength fairly weak. Although I can get a half-decent signal, it only operates around 2 Mbps, which isn’t ideal.
So, I’ve been brainstorming on a way to remedy the situation. I figure the only way to get decent signal strength at my house is to have our own dedicated wireless router – no router at Daniel’s is going to give a good signal through 3+ double brick walls. So, I’m buying a wireless bridge (for approximately $140) which I’ll sit in Daniel & Celeste’s window, where there should be decent signal strength. From the bridge, I’ll run a cable over the neighbour’s roof into my window, and into a port on a wireless router I already own.
So, my router will be configured with its own wireless network, but with the same LAN subnet as at Daniel’s place. Should work!
Jeeze, that was nerdy…
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So, following up on my plan to get a wireless bridge to connect the network at Daniel’s place to the one at my place – I bought the D-Link adapter, a DWL-G810, for $135. I set it up and tried to get a connection across the network – nothing!After spendin