okay question.. need to extend a wireless connection

i am setting up a neighbors house for him. his daughter lives in the house behind him (he has 3 houses on his lot) he has verizon fios with the regular actiontek piece of garbage and barely gets enough signal to cover his whole house. he wants his daughter to be able to use his internet so she doesnt have to get her own.

i can not run wires to her house from his is the only issue, why i dont know otherwise id run a cable from one house to the next but he wants to do this wirelessly. he is willing to buy what we need to do this.

i have in my stock 4 linksys wrt150n's i can sell him pretty reasonable and also a couple buffalo hp-g54's left. these all run dd-wrt firmware and can be used as normal routers, bridges, or access points.

question is: is this worth doing? will using a second wireless router at the other end of his house then another in her house allow a good connection after all that??

so i guess id have to use a actiontek (his cable and phone runs through it and getting verizon to give out a nim is next to impossible here to keep the guides and on demand for the tv, they simply insist now you use their router if you want the on demand and guides to work right), run that to the first wrt150n wirelessly setting it as a access point then yet another in her house as another access point??

any easier way to do this?? i know a decent amount about this but still learning a lot about full networking. thanks in advance

 

hmm,isnt it easier to extend the cable?

 

yeah but they do not want me to.. i have built all their pc's so they would like me to do this job for them.. im trying to work with what they want me to do

 

Wireless extending is cool, and useful...when it's extended once. But every time a signal has to be received and passed on again, you are losing strength and quality. It's like using 5 5' cables connected with couplers versus using 1 25' cable. The 25' cable will be better.

 

hmm well tomm ill see if he will let me run a cable to the other side of his house through the attic and then i can go wireless to her house.. i would think that would work well enough. all she does is email and things.. nothing more online..

 

isn't that the whole purpose of why wifi technology existed? lol
maybe you can try with the high gain antenna? also put the wifi router next to the windows if possible.

 

well what i think ill do is run a cat5e from one side of his house to the other. then this will be directly inside the the rear wall facing her house. this way i should be able to pick up at least a 2-3 bar connection at her house then i can always run a cable where she needs it to be. they just dont want cable from one house to another. we live in a deed restricted area and they are very picky about things like that and i am guessing that is one of the reasons. also he has full sprinkler systems running EVERYWHERE they guy is a nut about his lawn.. i would have a hard time running around all the stuff anyway without knowing where exactly everything is ran..

 

Hawking technologies is what you need.

http://www.hawkingtech.com/index.php

 

what are so special about Hawking technologies anyway? I bought a HWUG1 for backtrack 3 last week.

 

^^^ how does it work??

 

They have good booster+antenna system to extend the WiFi service coverage. Tha's what zfactor is looking for.