Extending a wireless network

Hi guys

I currently have cable broadband shared around the house with a wireless 802.11g router. It is fine in most of the house, but my daughter's bedroom is at the furthest reach from the router and the connection to it is patchy (keeps losing her MSN connection!)

I was wondering whether it would be possible to get an extra USB

802.11g adapter for my PC in my bedroom and then use that in point to point mode to connect to my daughters, and then bridge the connection to my good quality link to the router. So basically my daughter would access the Internet through two hops, one to my PC and one from there to the router.

Would this work? If so, can anyone give any tips about how to set it up on the two PCs. We are both running XP Home SP2. Would we use a network bridge or Internet Connection Sharing?

Any help much appreciated.

Sue

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Posted 5 years ago by suswaze in Wireless Networking

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