wifi signal boosters

.red.

We have free wifi in the building where i work but we cant pick it up in the canteen. We can pick it up it in an office from the public area outside but a few walls and a corridor stops it going any further.
Ive spoken to management and they have no problem with us buying a wifi booster and placing it in the office with the hope it will boost it to our canteen.
the only problem is we need to "sign in" to the wifi and accept the companys terms and conditions every time. Would this have any bearing on the booster? Is it just gonna throw the signal or does it need to log in before it boosts it?
Cheers.

ED E

A basic repeater just takes in packets and fires them back out, so it may work with the public access point. Problem is "boosters" like that slow down the speed of all clients, so you could degrade performance in other areas. If you want to do this the management should have a second AP fitted, only a few hundred euros including labour and wont cause a load of headaches with the existing setup.

.red.

Thanks for the reply. The wifi is public and ranges between 6-10mb and could have 150 people on it at once at busy times. All of the offices have their own private inernet so it wouldnt affect them.
spending a few hundred euro to get it set up properly isnt an option. We must chip in and pay for the booster ourselves if we want it.

Dermot McDonnell

Tough one. A wifi repeater will have to login to the primary device and it will have to sign in and accept t&c's, just as you do. It will have to do this automagically anytime the primary resets. Therefore you need a very flexibile router from a software point of view. Open source firmware will do this, e.g. OpenWRT, DD-wrt, tomato. I would buy a decent cheap router on adverts, e.g. the Huawei (vodafone) HG556a which has an excellent wifi radio. You will get one for €20 incl p&p.

The hard bit is to configure it for your scenario. I would need to know exact what the primary requires. Is it just a case of waiting a few seconds and sending carraige return (the enter key), or do you have to mouse click an "OK" button?

.red.

Dermot McDonnell wrote: »

Tough one. A wifi repeater will have to login to the primary device and it will have to sign in and accept t&c's, just as you do. It will have to do this automagically anytime the primary resets. Therefore you need a very flexibile router from a software point of view. Open source firmware will do this, e.g. OpenWRT, DD-wrt, tomato. I would buy a decent cheap router on adverts, e.g. the Huawei (vodafone) HG556a which has an excellent wifi radio. You will get one for €20 incl p&p.

The hard bit is to configure it for your scenario. I would need to know exact what the primary requires. Is it just a case of waiting a few seconds and sending carraige return (the enter key), or do you have to mouse click an "OK" button?

Thanks for the reply but i dont understand much of it lol.
We had a wifi reuter in the office but all the computers in there had wired internet/intranet? and we had to use the yellow cable from one for the reuter so it meant that computer didnt have internet access and we were told remove it.
We were told if we could get some way of boosting the free public wifi signal into our canteen then that would be ok