Get signal from parents house 50ft away
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you could get an ap that used for small biz. looks like a smoke detector. put it in the middle of your flat and have it linked to your family wifi router in the other flat. there are also for small biz high powered indoor wifi routers and usb dongles.
Both the above posts are incorrect. Neither a router nor a AP can connect to another router or AP without special options.
What you want is called a client-bridge. This is in effect a wireless nic card that connects to your computer with a ethernet card. When you go between buildings they are best placed outside. Both Ubiquiti and Engenius sell products under $75 that can go huge distances. At the distance you are talking you might get it to work with a bridge only on your end of the connection. If the signal is not strong enough you will need outdoor connections on both side.
If you do not have line of sight it may be impossible to get a really good signal. These bridge units have direction antenna and they do increase the signal strength that say comes though a wall but that depends more on what the walls are made of than anything you can buy.
What you want is called a client-bridge. This is in effect a wireless nic card that connects to your computer with a ethernet card. When you go between buildings they are best placed outside. Both Ubiquiti and Engenius sell products under $75 that can go huge distances. At the distance you are talking you might get it to work with a bridge only on your end of the connection. If the signal is not strong enough you will need outdoor connections on both side.
If you do not have line of sight it may be impossible to get a really good signal. These bridge units have direction antenna and they do increase the signal strength that say comes though a wall but that depends more on what the walls are made of than anything you can buy.
bill001g thanks for your reply. I was considering upgrading the parents router to a better model that will give better wireless signal and then in my place possible using an outdoor directional antenna to pick it up and use a router as an access point so I can plug my xbox one and pc through this and still get wireless for my phone.
my other option would be to bridge them together by using antennas in both places and the same idea for a router in my place. the only problem with that is id have to bring an Ethernet cable from the ground floor of my parents house outside and into the attic plus I wouldn't to sure how id resolve the conflicting ip address issue.
I do also have clear line of sit to there house
hope this makes sense. Any help would be appreciated.
the product I was thinking of using on my side to see if I pick up the signal is
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-ANT2414A-Outdoor-Directional-Antenna/dp/B000Q69L1C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388326555&sr=8-1&keywords=tp+link+outdoor+antenna
my other option would be to bridge them together by using antennas in both places and the same idea for a router in my place. the only problem with that is id have to bring an Ethernet cable from the ground floor of my parents house outside and into the attic plus I wouldn't to sure how id resolve the conflicting ip address issue.
I do also have clear line of sit to there house
hope this makes sense. Any help would be appreciated.
the product I was thinking of using on my side to see if I pick up the signal is
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-ANT2414A-Outdoor-Directional-Antenna/dp/B000Q69L1C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388326555&sr=8-1&keywords=tp+link+outdoor+antenna
Outdoor direction antenna is the old way to do this. You buy complete outdoor bridges for the same price. Pretty much they put the electronics inside the antenna so no more worries about expensive microwave cable and having to buy equipment with external antenna connectors.
Look at ubiquiti airgrid. I have gone well over 1000ft with one on each end they say they go 20km...not that I believe that. These are about $75 each but are large grid antenna. Engenius sells small flat box type units that don't go as far but would meet your needs.
There should be no IP conflicts.
If we look at a simple design you would cable a AP in your place to your parents router with ethernet cable. There still is only 1 router (if you use a router as a AP in your house the routing not being used).
So now if we replace the ethernet cable with 2 wireless bridges... one on each end. you would now plug a ethernet cable into them on each end and have a wireless connection in the middle. To the router and the AP this still looks like a ethernet cable.
In your case since you are so close you might get buy with a bridge on just your end. You would cable the AP to the bridge and then the bridge would attempt to talk directly to router as a client adapter. This is a repeater but since you have 2 separate radio connections you do not take the huge penalty the cheap garbage they sell as repeater. Your parents router would think this was a PC with a big network card and your AP would still think it had a ethernet cable to the router.
Other than the costs to mount the stuff you can get 2 of the airgrid things for $150 and it will work very well. I have run a number of these and even ones that go 1000ft easily pass 100m of data.
Look at ubiquiti airgrid. I have gone well over 1000ft with one on each end they say they go 20km...not that I believe that. These are about $75 each but are large grid antenna. Engenius sells small flat box type units that don't go as far but would meet your needs.
There should be no IP conflicts.
If we look at a simple design you would cable a AP in your place to your parents router with ethernet cable. There still is only 1 router (if you use a router as a AP in your house the routing not being used).
So now if we replace the ethernet cable with 2 wireless bridges... one on each end. you would now plug a ethernet cable into them on each end and have a wireless connection in the middle. To the router and the AP this still looks like a ethernet cable.
In your case since you are so close you might get buy with a bridge on just your end. You would cable the AP to the bridge and then the bridge would attempt to talk directly to router as a client adapter. This is a repeater but since you have 2 separate radio connections you do not take the huge penalty the cheap garbage they sell as repeater. Your parents router would think this was a PC with a big network card and your AP would still think it had a ethernet cable to the router.
Other than the costs to mount the stuff you can get 2 of the airgrid things for $150 and it will work very well. I have run a number of these and even ones that go 1000ft easily pass 100m of data.
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