as for everyone wanting to know how to boost their neighbors wifi signal, its simple. i used to do this at my old house. my neighbor was running a linksys router (unsecured), but it wouldnt reach the other side of my house where my main desktop was.

so… i had an extra computer in the garage, (doesnt have to be fast at all, could be a PII), hooked it up (in the garage where the signal was) then, i got a cheap usb wifi dongle and put it as high as i could for the signal, (using a rope and hanging it over the guide rails for the garage door), then i simply bridged the wireless connection to the wired one, and ran a Ethernet wire out of the back of the computer into a seperate router. and then i secured the router.

fast, simple, inexpensive. already had most/all of the parts just lying around.

Then I add (router C) onto (Router B) to serve my other wireless devices on apt#2

{router A} —-wireless bridged to —–>{ Router B} —-wired to router–{Router C}

Everything works fine without (router C), when (C) is added (B) and (C) interfer, (Router C) prevents (Router B) from connecting with (Router A). I change channels, I change settings, nothing works….

Any help????

Routers : A-linksys 11B, B-Linksys wrtg54g, C-Linksys wrtg54gs

You guys need to grow up, what is the harm in sharing internet connection with your neighbors for legitimate purposes?? Although many people leave their connections open because they are not aware of it, I find that a large number of people leave theirs open because they feel that their ISP charge them too much for the service and they want to make it available to their neighbors.

When you are using the neighbor’s open connection, how are you being cruel to them? When you change the IP on their router how is that cruel?? It’s not like you are altering their service…..When you walk down the street, you find a $100 bill on the floor, would you just walk and leave it on the floor or would you pick it up? Most of you who are so upset would pick it up, and the only reason you are so upset right now is because you can’t find a neighbor to share internet with!!

When you come to think of it, the only one who is cruel is the greedy internet service providers who overcharged us for years, and those scambaggs at Linksys who couldn’t write a nice firmware for the wrt54g to make it work on different modes…

I really did not see anything wrong with the hack, I really liked it, for a longtime I was looking for a way to turn my linksys router into a repeater to share internet connection with my neighbor…I was doing it by bridging a wifi card and an ethernet card, so my pc had to be on all the time, that consumes power…..So this tip not only helps me and my neighbor, it also help saves energy.

**Question**

When I set my router(b) in client mode, it is feeding of router (a), in this case the wireless capability of my wireless connection is loss? Should I add router (c) to have wireless in my house???

You guys need to grow up, what is the harm in sharing internet connection with your neighbors for legitimate purposes?? Although many people leave their connections open because they are not aware of it, I find that a large number of people leave theirs open because they feel that their ISP charge them too much for the service and they want to make it available to their neighbors.

When you are using the neighbor’s open connection, how are you being cruel to them? When you change the IP on their router how is that cruel?? It’s not like you are altering their service…..When you walk down the street, you find a $100 bill on the floor, would you just walk and leave it on the floor or would you pick it up? Most of you who are so upset would pick it up, and the only reason you are so upset right now is because you can’t find a neighbor to share internet with!!

When you come to think of it, the only one who is cruel is the greedy internet service providers who overcharged us for years, and those scambaggs at Linksys who couldn’t write a nice firmware for the wrt54g to make it work on different modes…

I really did not see anything wrong with the hack, I really liked it, for a longtime I was looking for a way to turn my linksys router into a repeater to share internet connection with my neighbor…I was doing it by bridging a wifi card and an ethernet card, so my pc had to be on all the time, that consumes power…..So this tip not only helps me and my neighbor, it also help saves energy.

**Question**

When I set my router(b) in client mode, it is feeding of router (a), in this case the wireless capability of my wireless connection is loss? Should I add router (c) to have wireless in my house???

How about a description of the specific hardware to allow rebroadcasting of a remote neighbor’s wireless connection to my house? I’m thinking a high gain directional antenna pointed at the neighbor, into a router, wired connection to another router with omnidirectional antenna to feed my house. But, the devil is in the details. HELP!

(BTW, in this case, I’m using his connection with permission).

trick is finding a good tunnel endpoint that has a fat enough pipe to do this.

anyone know of a good one? I know freeshell.net will give you a unix shell, and for some $$ you can get ssh capabilities.

onion router also won’t work because I think it assumes you trust your ISP, which we don’t in this case.

I think that iphantom standalone vpn thing that the twit people were talking about may work to counter this technique as well.

As far as the flamewar; even if he had not changed the settings on router a, it still could pose a keen MiM attack. Other people (like you) may choose to mooch off of this signal. I think some people felt this was a crossing of some line in the sand. You could easily just have a strong signal and others would like to mooch off you :-)

Exactly. I can’t believe people who read a page called “hack a day” are complaining about this. I, for one, am going to use this info for my three routers that I own and pay for the service so I can share it with my neighbors who don’t have wireless cards.

Thanks for the article Eliot. Was wondering if I could do this with my P.O.S. Netgear 802.11b, and didn’t really invest any research into it.