[Gllug] wifi help

[Mark Williams]

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SteveC wrote:
> I have a friend about 50 meters away and in a line of sight. He has  
> some generic ADSL wifi modem. I can't see his wifi. It's not practical  
> to put a repeater between us.
> 
> To get wifi, my plan is
> 
> * plug a wifi bridge A in to one of the ethernet ports on his ADSL  
> wifi modem and
> * put another bridge B at my house, and plug the ethernet in to my  
> computer
> * put directional antennas on both and point them at each other
> 
> If that works, then I'd buy another bridge C and plug that via  
> ethernet in to B and now have the wifi daisy chained. I'd set C and B  
> on different channels. I think.
> 
> I could then use my laptop which talks wifi to C which talks ethernet  
> to B which talks wifi to A which talked ethernet to the ADSL wifi  
> modem like this:
> 
> Laptop )))   ((( Bridge C <----> Bridge B )))   ((( Bridge A <--->  
> ADSL modem
> 
> Basically, I just want to be able to use my friends network with off  
> the shelf bits. Does this method make sense? Is there a better way?  
> I've been googling without a whole lot of luck.
> 
> Best
> 
> Steve
> 

Did you try it?
Did it work?

(I've had similar thoughts but never got round to trying)

Mark
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