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Thanks.  Maybe what you describe has dhcp client built into the router?

We are going to concentrate our efforts on adding a few more phone lines 
to the neighbor's house and placing her DSL modem closer to our house so 
we can pick up the signal directly with pcmcia wireless cards.  Even a PCI 
wireless card with longer antenna could not get a usable signal, but it 
did detect a weak signal.  Her signal is half strength even inside the 
house, so we need to check for interference from cordless phone or 
computer. If we make her signal stronger we should also figure out how to 
set a password or the whole neighborhood will be able to use it.

I am still trying to understand how to link networks.  It might be that I 
can change from dynamic internet IP address on my wireless router to an IP 
number similar to that of her router (put my router into her network) and 
then use it as a bridge that way.  I would connect to my own router (dhcp 
or manually assign IP number to match my own router) and with luck (and a 
stronger signal) pick up her signal and be able to use it.  I can try 
using her router IP number as DNS server, or use my usual ones (assigned 
manually after browsing to my router with Opera).  None of this will work 
until we get a stronger signal.

We were shown a new in-the-box amplifying antenna that plugs into a USB 
port and I presume also includes a wireless network card.  That would add 
one more layer of drivers, but some USB wireless cards have linux support.

Sindi

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> >  Has anyone succeeded in using a wireless router as a bridge (to pick up a
> >  neighbor's wireless signal)?
>
> If you're meaning getting 2 routers to talk to one another (I'm
> guessing the neighbour also uses a router?) and I am no expert on this
> but I think that this would require something called WDS. Not all
> routers support WDS and from what I can gather it's not even
> standardised yet! Those routers that run a small version of linux
> might work better, but because WDS isn't standardised it means having
> to get two routers of exactly the same type and version and model
> number. I tried getting a linksys WAG54G and a linksys WDS54G to try
> to work together but they both use different ideas of WDS and they
> refuse to detect each other! I'm no expert but I've found this to be
> quite hit-and-miss really.
>
> ljones
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