Wireless sharing

My mother-in-law (here on referred to as Mom) and her mother (here on referred to as Grandma) live on the same property (2 seperate houses). Mom wants to share her internet connection with Grandma with a wireless connection (cheapest way). Mom already has a wireless router at her house to connect the computers in her house and she wants Grandma's computer to have a wireless connection to her router.

Now here's the problem: Grandma's house is out of range from Mom's router (but just barely). What is the cheapest way to "boost" Mom's signal, so Grandma can connect?


P.S. Also is there anything that legal that would prevent them from doing this?


Thanks in Advance,

Zil

Check what the ISP defines as a customer and the customer's property on the legal side.

I'll let others handle the wireless repeater side...

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Originally Posted by Zil

My mother-in-law (here on referred to as Mom) and her mother (here on referred to as Grandma) live on the same property (2 seperate houses). Mom wants to share her internet connection with Grandma with a wireless connection (cheapest way). Mom already has a wireless router at her house to connect the computers in her house and she wants Grandma's computer to have a wireless connection to her router.

Now here's the problem: Grandma's house is out of range from Mom's router (but just barely). What is the cheapest way to "boost" Mom's signal, so Grandma can connect?


P.S. Also is there anything that legal that would prevent them from doing this?


Thanks in Advance,

Zil

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The legality behind this stands with your isp's EULA Most of them state that you can not share/sell (in your case share) a connection that it can only be used inside the premises of your own home. Some even go as far as saying only one computer can be connected. If your isp says it's fine well.... Anyways do you have LOS (Line of Site) from house to house? If so you can setup a directional antenna from the house with no internet to the house with internet and establish a connection that way. The only thing there is that you might need to get another access point to work as a client ap and then plug it into the existing ap so as not to lose the functionality of the wireless. Find out what your ISP has to say about it first before you try anything else though. Cheers.

They make wireless antennas that are mountable outside, but your access point needs to have external antenna hookups. Also, keep in mind when using wireless, from everything I've read, the signal seems to spread in an umbrella effect, so the higher in the house you put the access point, the further the signal is likely to get outside the house.

As far as the sharing of the ISP account, I think the others made that clear enough if you're concerned about that aspect.

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Originally Posted by 3FS

They make wireless antennas that are mountable outside, but your access point needs to have external antenna hookups. Also, keep in mind when using wireless, from everything I've read, the signal seems to spread in an umbrella effect, so the higher in the house you put the access point, the further the signal is likely to get outside the house.

As far as the sharing of the ISP account, I think the others made that clear enough if you're concerned about that aspect.

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The outside antenna was were I was gonna go if the ISP allowed him to share the connection. As for the umbrella affect: it is true to a certain point. It's more like a donut than an umbrella. The higher up you go you will have a stronger signal at about half of it's maximum range (see picture). Different anttenas have different characteristics. http://gollo.pointclark.net/antenna.png