Ever since we went to North Carolina during spring break and got moved into our house there It's been quite a Merry Go Round for us. I got a little behind on my testing due to taking some extra time off and having a heavy load this semester. I know you aren't interested in my situation, but let's just say Finals are over, Graduation is Saturday and we will be heading to North Carolina come Sunday. We have a lot to do there, but it will be a bit at a time and not a full time job so I hope I will be more active here. Best to all of you, Skybox is never out of my mind even when I am scarce. Gator Bill
I'll be piggybacking their system this summer as it doesn't make sense to get another one right now. In fact as expensive as the satallite internet is I will probably investigate how to get a better wi-fi down to to my place. It is one three acre piece of property that was split so it may work out ok. Gator Bill
Well if you believe the marketing stuff, they have improved the wireless routers/access points in terms of range and speed over the last year. So if you could do it before with some newer gear it should be easier and better.
Terry, I bought one of those new routers that is supposed to have the longer range. I put it in their house but also left the cheaper one hooked up outside the house. The cheaper one works better. I do need to check on an access point as that will probably be my answer. Also I would like to have it so that I could have a wireless within my house. I do have an antenna that I can supposedly hook up to one of the routers to give it better range but while it's supposed to be universal I looked at one of the routers and don't know exactly how to hook it up. If you know how to send a signal from one router to another let me know. Gator Bill
Bill, What is the distance in feet between the two houses? Have you ever thought of just burying a cable between the two?
Tom, is there a way to transmit from one router to another wireless? In other words is there a way for me to set up a router in my house that would recieve the wireless and then act as a router in my house? Gator Bill
Bill wrote: I am fairly sure that would work but would probably have to be set up as a "peer-to-peer" network rather than an "ad-hoc" network. If I were you, and you were considering this to be at least a semi-permanient installation, I would come off of one of his router ports with a hard wire connection down to a hub/switch in your house. You can then hook up a desktop hard wired for max speed. You can use another port of the hub/switch to connect a wireless access point to use with laptop(s) in your house.
Bill, I do think Tom suggestion is the best one, but I am sure that you can figure multiple routers to talk to one another. It probably means you'll have to assign the router's ip addresses on the same subnet using a public IP address such as 10.x.x.x (where x=0-255) or 192.168.x.x I know at my office I have a switch that handles 5 of my computers and plugged into that is a wireless access point that handles 2 of my other computers and a wireless print server. All of them have their own individual ip addresses. Then I have a router/dsl modem that connects the whole mess to the internet. Terry
The problem with hardwiring to my router is the distance involved, over 100 feet, and how I would lay the wire. I have some concern for water and an invisible fence they have for their dogs. Far and away the easiest thing for me to do if I could make it work is router to router wireless. I need to find some place to read up on this stuff. Gator Bill
Bill, What exactly do you want in your house? For example, do you want a desktop and one or more laptops... do you just want a desktop... just a laptop... The reason I ask is that wireless bridges are simply designed to connect up two LANs. You can buy them to be point to point or point to multipoint. If you only want one computer, hard wired to the wireless bridge, a point to point wireless bridge is all you need and it is the least expensive. If you want to also be able to go wireless in your house, then you would need the more expensive point to multipoint system. This type of wireless bridge offers the ability to go wireless between the two LANs(the two houses) and wireless within your house as well. I am not exactly sure on this point, but I think you can use a relatively inexpensive point to point wireless bridge and then hardwire a wireless access point to it to make it a point to multipoint wireless bridge.
Bill can you outline the setup that you are trying to piggyback off of in NC? I'm thinking you have a Sat feed to some sort of DSL modem that you then connect to a wireless router that distributes the feed to both houses? Is that correct? As far as bridged mode Tom has that correct. At my sisters house when she switched from Cable to DSL they gave her a DSL modem which worked fine when plugged into a single computer. But we have a 3 computer network and a hub, each computer has it's own IP address, and if you plugged the dsl modem into the hub along with the 3 computers they went blind. When I changed the dsl modem to bridged mode then they could see the internet. The modem had an IP address on a different subnet set by SBC, so bridging allowed our internal network access. Many times in business each workgroup will have it's own subnet. Accounting on the 192.168.1.x and Purchasing on 192.168.2.x and bridging is one way to allow them to see each other. Terry
We have a DirectWay Satallite System to my brother-in-laws house and a wireless modum setup that does reach to my house. But only to a couple of places in the house. What I want to do is either get a strong enough signal that I could use my computer elsewhere in the house. That is not likely to happen unless I find a way to get a signal to my house which I can then set up a wifi within my house. I already have three routers, including the two in North Carolina and the one I use here in the trailer that I am taking with me. What I want to be able to use in my house in NC is the laptop and a desktop. And come next year, two desktops. The signal is a little weak unless I am using it in a specific place so I was hoping to set up an access point where the strongest signal is and then redistribuite it though my house as needed. I don't want to spend a fortune but am willing to invest in one or more wireless bridges. Some reading I was doing last night led me to believe it might be done with one, but it sure does sound like I could do it with two. Meanwhile I will be able to use the computer by the windo where the strongest signal reaches my house which happens to be where we set up an office. So that is good. I don't need to have individual addresses, just the ability to use two computers now and a third one in another year. Bill
When you say a wireless modem, are you saying that the modem does not connect directly to the computer at your brother in laws house? I have a DSL modem that acts as a wired router as well as it can be used to send out a wireless signal simultaneously. Currently since I ony have 1 computer at home I just plug my computer into one of the router ports on the modem and that's it. If yours is like that the I would think that if you had one of the newer wireless routers (with the improved range) you could disable the wireless on the current modem, and plug a new wireless router into one of the ethernet ports on the current modem. I think then you could have a wireless access point in your house to pick up the signal and distribute it to your house increasing the coverage. Terry
Terry, it's wireless but their two computers are hard wired to it. It's wireless for me and for anyone else who is in their house that might want wireless. The same will probably be true at my house, one computer now and two later would be hardwired and I would leave the laptop as wireless. If I had a bit of a stronger signal I might just make all mine wireless. Gator Bill
Bill, I think what you have is actually a wored DirectWay modem connected to a wireless router. The router sends internet to both the wireless signal and to the wired ports. However, I think that I remember you saying that he had a wireless access point that you were connected to. Therefore it may be simply a wired router with an access point connected to one of the wired ports. That is exactly what I am using in my house. Most of the wireless bridges are are higher power output allowing for more range than an access point.
... btw, forgive my response timeframe. I am teaching a class over the internet to customers in Europe and keeping strange hours. I teach from 7pm until 2am central time. I go home and crash and hardly even look at the computer until I return to work around this time each day.