I get a horrible wifi signal in my room. Using an old satellite dish I can get an good signal, but it still goes sometimes. Someone told me about a WDS (I think) system where you can use another router kind of as a repeater for the first. I know that you can use a wireless card to share wifi using ad hoc (something like that). I was wondering if I could make a WDS (or something similar) with a laptop with one wireless card, or if I'd need two, or if it wouldn't work (or too difficult for a noob ).

 

And am I getting the right idea about a WDS?

I think you can do it using a *nix system and one wifi card..

 

http://www.tummy.com/journals/entries/jafo_20041220_000528

 

Looks hopefull.

Does anyone know a way I could have Linux on the WDS machine and windows on the clients?

Networks tend to not be os dependent, alot of routers run some type of *nix...

That's what I was thinking, I'll have to experiment some more

That's what I was thinking, I'll have to experiment some more

 

Very often the best way to learn

Truly.

 

I think I'll try wiring the connection to the laptop and making a WDS that way so I can get the idea.