Hi all,
I live in a complex with tons of shops as well as the free "community room" wifi from the building. All of this is a bit out of range, even though I'm right across the street from stores and restaurants. The building's free wifi is across a few floors and walls.
Obviously, I don't have access to any routers, and I don't have access to the roof or the building's exterior to put up any exterior bridges (whatever these may be) or high gain antennas. Ages ago I used a range extender to tap into apartment complex's wifi. I tried my old range extender but it doesn't seem to work anymore. Would a new range extender, maybe something like this one, work? https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-N300-Range-Extender-EX2700/dp/B00L0YLRUW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1533998448&sr=8-3&keywords=wireless+extender
Maybe with a homemade antenna like some decorative wire thingy hanging on a wall, with a wire running from that to the antenna connector on the extender? Would that work with wifi connections that require web page sign-ins where you go to a web site and have to click "agree" before connecting?
I live in a complex with tons of shops as well as the free "community room" wifi from the building. All of this is a bit out of range, even though I'm right across the street from stores and restaurants. The building's free wifi is across a few floors and walls.
Obviously, I don't have access to any routers, and I don't have access to the roof or the building's exterior to put up any exterior bridges (whatever these may be) or high gain antennas. Ages ago I used a range extender to tap into apartment complex's wifi. I tried my old range extender but it doesn't seem to work anymore. Would a new range extender, maybe something like this one, work? https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-N300-Range-Extender-EX2700/dp/B00L0YLRUW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1533998448&sr=8-3&keywords=wireless+extender
Maybe with a homemade antenna like some decorative wire thingy hanging on a wall, with a wire running from that to the antenna connector on the extender? Would that work with wifi connections that require web page sign-ins where you go to a web site and have to click "agree" before connecting?