Wireless Repeater with a Linksys WET11
At my girlfriends apartment I can pickup a faint unencrypted 802.11b signal from a nearby neighbor. Here’s how I created a Wi-Fi repeater to “borrow” that high bandwidth connection.
I bought a Linksys WET11 wireless ethernet bridge.
I connected the Linksys WET11 to an extra Linksys AP I had.
Then I configured the devices like this:
ssid – linksys (same as neighbor’s AP)
channel – 6 (same as neighbor’s AP)
IP – static 192.168.1.226 (changed from default 192.168.1.225
changed default password
My AP
ssid – notsleepy (different from neighbor’s AP)
turned off ssid broadcasting
channel – 11 (different from neighbor’s AP)
IP – obtain from AP1 DHCP
turned on encryption
disabled DHCP (obtains from neighbor’s AP)
changed default password
VOILA! Instant boosted signal! I’m mostly transparent except for the fact that I obtain an IP from his AP.
