Extending Airport Range Using Another Mac

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have a wireless router sitting in my basement which i use with three macs, all with airport. I was wondering if it is possible to use one of the macs to increase the signal strength by forwarding it along. If i go into sharing I can share the airport connection via ethernet, but is there a way to use the airport to connect and share, affectively extending the airport's range?

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    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    They make special access points that do what you're suggesting, but with the hardware available at your disposal, I do not believe you can.
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    altivec_2.0altivec_2.0 Posts: 995member
    I think this might work, not staying it will, just poped into my head. If you turn on internet connection sharing through ethernet port, it might share the connection your getting through Airport, but then it's not wireless, you'd have to connect the computer with a cord.... I don't think you can do it wirelessly. When you just do a direct computer connection. the Airport card can only see other computers with airport and that feature on. I don't think it can do that while in a active internet connection thought.Just get a cheap Wireless basestaion and use it as a brigde, that's all I can think of..
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    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    Doesn't 802.11b Infrastructure Mode do exactly this? Or is it ad hoc? Or neither? I'm too tired and lazy to type search terms into google...
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    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by 1337_5L4Xx0R

    Doesn't 802.11b Infrastructure Mode do exactly this? Or is it ad hoc? Or neither?



    Neither. You need WDS to do it, and Macs don't do WDS.
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