My neighbor has a cable modem, Linksys router, and Linksys WAP11 AP. With his permission, I can access his network with my PCs. However, the signal strength is rather low. I have a Linksys WAP11 and a D-Link DWL-900AP+ that I would like to use to repeat his signal. I was thinking that I could put my WAP11 into client mode and hook up a directional antenna pointed at his house. I could wire my WAP11 client to my DWL-900AP+ set to AP mode on a different channel. Then my PCs would connect to my network instead of his. I would like my PCs to be able to access the internet through my AP, my client, his AP, his router, and his cable modem.
First, is all this possible?
Second, should I set my WAP11 and 900AP to a hard-coded IP address or have them get their IP address automatically? I'm guessing that if I do have to hard-code the addresses, they have to be on my nieghbor's subnet.
Third, the 900AP had a DHPC server. Should I turn that on? Or should my PCs use my neighbor's DHCP server?
Thanks for any help. John