Thanks everyone! I think I am going to go for the "Hawking Wireless-G Range Extender - HWUR54G." ( I want something my girlfriend can figure out while I am not around.) Thanks Again, Brock PS For those interested, I did ask permission and was granted permission by the employee on duty (cashier). So I am taking that as is and running with it! On 8/12/05, Richard Hoffbeck <rwh at visi.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >