Extend wifi. How?

[redflag5050]

Just returned from a trip. We stayed at a resort where we had to go on the balcony to get wifi. For future use, what do you guys recommend to extend wifi? Thanks.

[wilsonlam97]

You want a portable solution?

You could buy a USB wifi card (assuming your using a laptop) and plug a big external antenna to it.

[psyko514]

An Apple Airport Express (~$100) or a TP-Link TL-WR700N (~$30) are great portable solutions for extending wifi. They have to be plugged in somewhere that they can pick up the signal, though.

[redflag5050]

You want a portable solution?

You could buy a USB wifi card (assuming your using a laptop) and plug a big external antenna to it.

Mostly using iPad and iPhone. An external antenna is along the line of what I was thinking to extend the wifi area a bit further.

[Keigotw]

An Apple Airport Express (~$100) or a TP-Link TL-WR700N (~$30) are great portable solutions for extending wifi. They have to be plugged in somewhere that they can pick up the signal, though.

+1
TP-LINK http://www.tp-link.com/common/subject/wireless/TL-WR700N/?siteid=4
if the resort have RJ-45 plug, then you make your own wifi from it

[psyko514]

+1
TP-LINK http://www.tp-link.com/common/subject/wireless/TL-WR700N/?siteid=4
if the resort have RJ-45 plug, then you make your own wifi from it

I've been doing exactly that in my hotel for the last 8 weeks :)

The device also allows you to extend/repeat an existing wireless signal.

[ottofly]

I've been doing exactly that in my hotel for the last 8 weeks :)

The device also allows you to extend/repeat an existing wireless signal.


How would this work? I'm currently leaching a friends WiFi signal who is a few doors down the hall in our building but the signal sometimes just comes and goes. Certain days it works others it's slow or non existent. Would this device help and if yes where can I get this on the cheap?

[psyko514]

How would this work? I'm currently leaching a friends WiFi signal who is a few doors down the hall in our building but the signal sometimes just comes and goes. Certain days it works others it's slow or non existent. Would this device help and if yes where can I get this on the cheap?

I haven't used it to extend wifi myself, but the reviews seem pretty positive.

I picked it up for $30 at Canada Computer in Laval. That was the only place that carries it in the Montreal region. FS & BB sell it online only for $30 as well.

[xalex0]

You can setup a dd-wrt router as a wireless repeater http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater

[wilsonlam97]

I've been doing exactly that in my hotel for the last 8 weeks :)

The device also allows you to extend/repeat an existing wireless signal.

You've been in a hotel for the past 8 weeks? Baller.

[psyko514]

You've been in a hotel for the past 8 weeks? Baller.

LOL... Business trip. I'm not paying for it.

[Error2]

An Apple Airport Express (~$100) or a TP-Link TL-WR700N (~$30) are great portable solutions for extending wifi. They have to be plugged in somewhere that they can pick up the signal, though.

My understanding is that this requires an ethernet connection already set up, and it cannot act like a wifi client (connect to an existing wifi network) and further distribute the signal - extend the network. I am in need of a device like that currently and I like the form factor of this device. The DD-WRT link outlines precisely what I want to do... a repeater

Can owners please verify.

Thanks

Kim

[psyko514]

My understanding is that this requires an ethernet connection already set up, and it cannot act like a wifi client (connect to an existing wifi network) and further distribute the signal - extend the network. I am in need of a device like that currently and I like the form factor of this device. The DD-WRT link outlines precisely what I want to do... a repeater

Can owners please verify.

Thanks

Kim

The device works as a repeater just fine. Instructions are here: http://www.tp-link.com/en/article/?id=390

[Error2]

The device works as a repeater just fine. Instructions are here: http://www.tp-link.com/en/article/?id=390

Thank you. Apparently the same can be achieve with the 703N model which I am hoping to get due to its OpenWRT compatibility

[Forhad]

You have to use a secondary router to extend WiFi.

[opento]

Client Bridge to Access Point bridge.

AP ))) ((( CB