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It isn't free but you could consider using a hotspot. Or if he has an android smartphone, those can tether wirelessly too.
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I have the "hotspot", but in his room it's too weak a signal for most portable devices. Thus, I'm looking for something to take the hotspot signal and amplify it.
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Maybe the hotspot you are referring to isn't the one I was mentioning. I would kind of be surprised if you don't have a sufficient cell signal inside of his room. I mean, I get a 4G Verizon signal in my basement.
These are Verizon's, but the other carriers have them too.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/internet-devices/[^]
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I don't understand. Why can't you use a wi-fi repeater[^]?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have no reason not to use one - I just don't want to go on the buy and test routine until I have a good potential - like your suggestion.
(I've never needed a repeater so I'm not aware of its potential).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I've used two in this house (the floors are made of bison slabs, which is great if there's a fire, but cr@p for wifi -- guess which I make more use of), but I recently replaced one with a router (for the Ethernet slots).
They're cheap, easy to configure, and (as long as you have a free electrical socket) very convenient.
You can either set them up as independent wifi-routers, or as repeaters of the master router, adopting the same IP, etc.
I'm guessing that you won't be able to use the auto-configury button (I can't remember what they call it, for the mo'), but you can just go to 192.168.wot.eva and you get an admin site, the same as for a normal router.
A couple of cons you suffer when it's set up as a repeater, rather than as a wifi router:
0: Once it is set up, you will no longer have admin control over it, unless the owners of the master router give you access (but it doesn't take two minutes to set up, after you've done it once, so you can always revert to factory settings and redo).
1: Other people who have access to the master router will automatically connect to it, too, eating your bandwidth.
[edit] missed a bit [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 14-Apr-15 15:25pm.
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Thanks - a repeater seems to be the way to go. I'll bring a laptop to configure it.
As for others latching onto the signal - that's no actual problem in that it's a massive publicly available network (for subscribers to that cable company). Also, with the average resident in the vicinity on the order of 80 years old and above, there won't be too much competition.
Now to do a rapid shop-around for what best fits the location.
Again - thanks.
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Oops. Looks like I missed a word or two out, when introducing the cons.
What I meant was that you might prefer to use it as a (client) wifi router of the master router.
On that setting, you connect it to the master router with the same creds that you would use to connect with the computer, and then connect to the "repeater" (which is acting as a router) using its own IP and creds. Then those two cons don't apply.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I dont know the exact situation if it will work in you case but in my house I have used the internet signal to transmit via power distribution network. So I take it out from the power outlet in another room.
And also I have used repeater to have stonger signal in the backyard as power outlet was not an option there.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Scary. Most women don't even know what the devices in their natural habitat are for.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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She had the foil the wrong way round, the BACON deserves better!
veni bibi saltavi
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And there was me thinking all the burnt tin foil cops find in peoples cars on reality shows was for heroin! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Heating streaky bacon in a trouser press (almost)? Reminds me of this marvellous song[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't know about other parts of the world, but here in the USA we have kitchen implements referred to as "stoves" or "ranges" on which we cook our food!
(I have my coat, and am long gone!......)
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And all of you probably also play the stove pipes very well. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Indeed but, if you note, the cookery equipment featured is all available in a typical hotel room.
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What was she talking there?
It was hard to understand anything as she was squeezing out obnoxious sounds between residual dental matter found in her oral orifice.
shudders
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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If you are in a hotel on an extreme budget, then OK, but in most cases, isn't it more beneficial and adventurous to go out into the city and meet the people and experience the food? If you can afford to travel, then you should be able to afford to take advantage of the local dining.
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You're thinking up an elegant solution to a problem, you can see it clearly and you make design notes. It looks bloody good and you know it will work.
Then you try to turn it into code and there is the hand cart, destination Hell. 
veni bibi saltavi
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I bet you also dreamt up the prerequisite Roslyn-plugin but, alas, it didn't make it into the awake conscience. That's always how I feel then, some puzzle piece that made it all working got lost somewhere.
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It is the reality which happens most often!
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And on the 'Sleep Coding' topic, I do so quite a bit...
BUT!
When I do, and I get to coding it, it actually works quite well. I have never had a weird issue with it.
I also have this happen with video games:
* Trying to figure out a puzzle
* Go walk the dogs
* Realize the solution while on the walk
* Come back, try solution, it works.
I got through some rather confusing puzzles this way.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah, and after hours of work you find that someone on the interwebz has already solved your exact problem and way better than you ever could've hoped to do
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