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My questions are:ġ) I want to be able to upgrade to 802.11n for streaming HD content throughout the house wirelessly, hence the Hi-Gain antenna. Q: I’ve taken your advice and I’m going to extend my network by running Ethernet to certain computers and the attic where I’ll connect it to a Hi-Gain 7dBi antenna. Because these hotspots require authentication using a Web-based form, I don’t know of any way to trigger the router to do this on your behalf. The Optimum Online hotspot requires re-authorization after two hours of use (or 20 minutes of idle time). The second part of your question suggests that you’d like the router to maintain a permanent login to Optimum Online’s hotspot gateway. This may well be the case out-of-the-box, or you may find it necessary to replace the router’s stock antenna with a larger, more powerful substitute. Of course, for either of these approaches to be useful, the router needs to be able to pick up the hotspot signal more successfully than your laptop does. (DD-WRT V24 now supports repeater bridge mode, but again, bridging is less secure when connecting to a public hotspot.) In wireless repeater mode, the router picks up the wireless signal from the hotspot and re-broadcasts it locally. (You can do this with wireless bridge mode, too, but when connecting to a public hotspot this may be less secure.) In wireless client mode, the router can pick up the wireless signal from the hotspot and relay it to devices connected by Ethernet to one of the router’s LAN ports. You will need to decide whether to configure DD-WRT in either (a) wireless client mode, or (b) wireless repeater mode. You will need to flash DD-WRT onto this router. You will need a wireless router that supports DD-WRT, ideally the most current V24 release, such as the WRT54GL. Office? Home of a friend with no other Internet access? Mother-in-law’s? (In that case, spending your time on the street might actually be preferable.) Regardless, there are two options for solving the first part of your question-how to grab and repeat the Optimum Wi-Fi signal. It isn’t exactly clear where you are accessing this hotspot from-you already receive Optimum broadband at home, but you’re somewhere where you could theoretically set up a router to repeat the Optimum Wi-Fi signal. Seeing as the Guru originally hails from Long Island, it is striking to think of the same place that used to be populated with Camaros and hair spray now blanketed with Wi-Fi. In addition to the usual cable broadband services, though, Optimum subscribers can get online through one of thousands of hotspots, using their account login. So, I guess it’s really a two-part question: Can I configure a device to act as a repeater and, can the service be “nailed up” once I am able to “see” the network through the repeater or access point? – MarkĪ: Optimum Online is a cable ISP operating on New York’s Long Island. Do you know of a device, or a way to configure a typical Linksys router to act as a signal repeater for this type of situation?Īlso, this “free” service is available to Optimum Internet users (I am one at home) and they ask for a log in (e-mail address and password) when accessing the service. I can access with my laptop when near the street, but I frequently lose signal, and would also not like to spend my time on the street(!). Q: I have a weak signal from Optimum’s Wi-Fi network on Long Island. For example, if your wireless router blinks seven lights at the same time, that means a black cat will break a mirror while walking under a ladder. So, let’s start a new superstition instead. But also, a backbone, and though it may be gnarled and curled from sitting in an office chair all day, it gives us courage-courage to look at the number 13 and say “ha” right to its face. But when we face down wireless networking problems month after month, we develop something important-bad posture. If we were a residential street there would be no house marked number 13. If we were an apartment building we might not have a 13th floor. It is episode 13, you see, and if we were an airplane we might skip row 13.
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This month the Wi-Fi Guru laughs in the face of superstition.