I work abroad and am looking for some help to set up some sort of wireless point.

At my staff house we have wireless but the signal is weak. We can also plug in with a cable.

Is there any way I can create a wireless signal from the network cable plug? It's not a phone line plug where you'd normally plug in a wireless router.


Also in the office I'd like to set up a wireless point to use my ipad from my work computer. A friend told me how to set up a wireless access on my personal laptop(windows 7) and I can connect to it but the ipad then says 'no internet connection'. Any ideas or suggestions?

The work computer has XP. Can anyone advise how I can set this up? I've ordered an iphone and when I come away again I'd love to have wifi access at work for sending messages etc.

Is there any sort of wireless sender thingy to plug into a network point?


Cheers

Chop

 

netgear wnr2000v2 has a wireless extender facility .. so long as its close enough to the main wireless router it should work ... but you need the mac code for it to set it up...
if its a cat 5 cable then daisy chaining could work but would require some playing around with the main wireless router/switch for it to function from what i can gather ...

 

Eagle thanks for the reply. I cant get near any of the equipment. TBH I dont know where it is and dont want to touch it. If I can use a normal network cable socket and rig something up I'd like to try it. Or otherwise share the net connection via the laptop if possible.

 

I used an ASUS WL-330gE Wirless AP to do this.

http://uk.asus.com/Networks/Wireless_Routers/WL330gE/

Plug the network cable into it and set it up and you have a wireless network. It works on the staff houses where I've been and on company networks.

The ipad may need a proxy server set up?

Shanny

 

Aha that's the sort of thing I am looking for thanks

What do you mean with regards ipad and a proxy? Can you elaborate a little please?