WiFi Repeated to an indoor router

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Originally Posted by RamGunner

Here's how we are setup.

We have an Asus RT-AC66U router. It has 1 hardwired ethernet port for WAN (external Internet), 4 hardwired LAN ports, and a full WiFi system (with both primary and guest WiFi networks). It also has two USB ports - and one of them can take a USB device from a wireless carrier to use as a backup when the primary WAN is offline. The other can take any USB device and make it usable via the network - printers, hard drives etc.

All of our wireless and wired devices connect to this system. That never changes, so our internal LAN is always the same and is always available. We have a Canon MG5400 printer/scanner which connects to the primary wireless network and can be used by anything on our LAN.

In terms of external Internet - we have three modems that can connect to the WAN port on the router. One is a Motorola SB6141 DOCSIS 3 cable modem if we have cable Internet. Another is for ADSL if we have a DSL connection. The third is what you might be looking for.

It's a Netgear Trek N300 (Model PR2000). It has several functions, but the one we use is to bridge the hardwired WAN port of our router to ANY WiFi signal - this can be a WiFi from a hotspot, WiFi at a park, WiFi at a library - if we can connect to it, it will use it. When we arrive at a location with a public or secured WiFi where we have the password, I just plug the PR2000 into the WAN port of our router, and access it through the router. I enter the info for the WiFi and it connects. Then our external connectivity runs through it.

Even if we don't have external connectivity, we always have the same internal connectivity available, including for our printer/scanner.

There is also a function on the PR2000 that will let you plug your printer into it via Ethernet and create a WiFi network that your laptops can connect to and communicate with it. It could also bridge to your Internet hotspot. That would simplify the setup - and you could give the WiFi it creates the same name and settings as your home network so that everything would automatically connect.

I hope that's helpful.

That's is where I'm heading. The Nanostation seems to be the best fit for now, for external WiFi reception. We'll see how that works.

[deandec]

I made a Wifi antenna like this and could fit it to a pole.

It works to boost the wifi signal and could be plugged to a wireless router in your basement.

It is a bit clumsy, directional and tacky.

Cost about $10 with old parts and a new strainer.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/braint...n/photostream/

[Coma]

Originally Posted by deandec

I made a Wifi antenna like this and could fit it to a pole.

It works to boost the wifi signal and could be plugged to a wireless router in your basement.

It is a bit clumsy, directional and tacky.

Cost about $10 with old parts and a new strainer.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/braint...n/photostream/

I love stuff like that. Very cool!!

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Here's where I am now. I was trying to connect long range ~500ft to an Apple Airport Extreme connected to a DSL modem with the WiFiRanger Go2. Brush and distance made this an unreliable connection. Credits to Dave Bott, he gave me the idea to use a Ubiquiti NanostationM2 as a receiver. Essentially it become the WiFi adapter. The Airport does not play well with extensions, however. The solution was to use the Go2 connected to DSL with wireless Wan. The M2 sees the Go2 with ease and I have great throughput. It did require putting the Airport in bridge to avoid a double NAT which is the indoor RV router in a storage bay. I also have to give credit for the Nano configuration to Beanstalk.

This is not a mobile solution, yet, and I did have to learn more about binary octets than I wanted. That said if you can follow the guides and avoid the Apple wireless router, you will be ahead.

Good Luck!

On Edit: I forgot to mention that I also have complete over the Net management interface for all devices, even the remote Go2