[Wylug-help] Cheap wireless ethernet

[Steve King]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Dave Whiteley wrote:

> Suggestions please.
>
> We have wired ethernet at home.  I want to extend this to include a friend's
> house across our back lane.  Putting up an actual wire is not attractive or
> really possible.
>
> I am doing this for semi-charitable reasons, so cost is very much an issue.
>
> I welcome suggestions for the best way to achieve a link. Most of our kit is
> old 10Mb stuff.

I helped a friend do something similar.  We got an old 11b wireless access
point of mine, set it to act as a bridge, and connected it to his neighbour's
wlan... and that was it.

Steve