This weekend, I'll spend some time at a vacation house with no Internet. My relatives who own the house (Family House) received permission from a friendly neighbor (Neighbor House) to piggyback on their open Wi-Fi signal. They're out in the country.
I would like to increase the strength of the Family House signal and add password protection inside that location. (I don't want to extend the range of the open signal from Neighbor House any further.)
I read the LifeHacker article below on installing DD-WRT in an old router to turn it into a repeater. I understand that a repeater automatically cuts throughput in half. I'm walking into a situation where I control none of the variables.
Is it possible to add password protection to the "repeated" Wi-Fi signal while leaving the open Wi-Fi signal alone?
Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater
http://lifehacker.com/5563196/turn-your-old-router-into-a-range-boosting-wi-fi-repeater
TIA,
John
I would like to increase the strength of the Family House signal and add password protection inside that location. (I don't want to extend the range of the open signal from Neighbor House any further.)
I read the LifeHacker article below on installing DD-WRT in an old router to turn it into a repeater. I understand that a repeater automatically cuts throughput in half. I'm walking into a situation where I control none of the variables.
Is it possible to add password protection to the "repeated" Wi-Fi signal while leaving the open Wi-Fi signal alone?
Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater
http://lifehacker.com/5563196/turn-your-old-router-into-a-range-boosting-wi-fi-repeater
TIA,
John