Linksys and a couple of others offer range extenders which appear to be WAPs running in bridged mode that basically act as repeaters. If you can place one in your house that can hit the coffee shop and provides wireless coverage for the rest of your house, you should be good to go. The other option is to get better antennae for the wireless units in other parts of your house but that seems less interesting. For range extenders take a look at: http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10403629&loc=101&sp=1 http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10381274&loc=101&sp=1 http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?childpagename=US%2FLayout&packedargs=c%3DL_Promotion_C1%26cid%3D1121121186018&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper And I think Apple's little wireless unit can operate in bridge mode as well, http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ I would also think that it would be possible to grab one of the cheap Linksys WAPs and load up one of the replacement firmware packages to run it in bridge mode. That said, you may want to consider whether you want to do the 'free rider' thing or not. Its probably legal but it certainly isn't without issues. --rick Brock Noland wrote: >I live near a corporate coffee shop which offers free wireless access. >I can use there signal in the portion of my house which is nearest the >coffee shop. *If* I wanted to boost their signal so that I could use >it throughout my house, what is the best way? > >I could setup a proxy in that part of the host, but I would prefer a >"store bought" solution. A quick search of Google for wireless range >extender and wireless signal amplifier does not lead to productive >results. Any ideas? > >Thanks > >Brock > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >