I may be moving to a new residence in January
- a cottage I'll be renting. The owner has a
house on the same property - the two buildings
are relatively close, close enough for wireless to
work (I think).
The owner already has cable internet at the house.
However, there is no network interface for the
cottage - the cable company would have to install
one, and that's just too expensive to be an
option. (DSL is not an option either - too
far out in the boonies.)
The owner has graciously offered to share her
internet access - however, she understandably doesn't
want to string CAT5 between the buildings! Thus
I am looking for a wireless solution.
The owner already has a wireless router (I do
not know what make/model). I also have wireless
router - a Netgear WGR614. I got it to use
as a router, not for the wireless capabilities,
and in fact have not used them.
Inside the cottage I would have a wired LAN.
What I want to know is, if I set my Netgear
router up to act as a simple access point, gave
it an unused IP on the same IP range that
my land-lady's router uses, and plugged that bad-boy
into my Ethernet hub, would my land-lady and I
be on the same network? i.e. assuming her
router is configured to allow it, would I be
able to connect to the internet? And if not,
can you make any suggestions that will allow this
to work, without necessitating me buying any more
equipment?
If this won't do the trick, my other idea was
to connect one PC to the land-lady's wireless
router wirelessly (I do have one wireless adapter)
and set up Internet Connection Sharing service on
that box.
I just don't want to shell out for a wireless
bridge if the equipment I have on hand will do
the job.
