Desperate for help with my wireless...

Here is my situation:

I recently moved into a small 1 bedroom cottage house on a farm. My landlord lives in the main house directly across the street, app. 150-200 feet away. They said that Iam welcome to use their wireless internet, providing me with the password, etc. They said the previous tenants had no problem getting service in the house.

I cannot get service AT ALL in this house. The ONLY place i can get a signal is if I sit directly infront of the front door with the main door open and the glass storm door closed, and even then I have to use a Belkin USB adapter. When I sit here, I can get full signal. If I move back 2 feet behind a wall, it drops completely.

I can sit in my front yard and get full signal. I can literally walk with my laptop outside BEHIND my house and get connection. But inside, unless I sit directly infront of the door, I get nothing. Its anywhere from 0-25 degrees here in NE PA and im getting damn cold sitting in front of the door to surf the net!

I have a Gateway MD2614 Laptop bought new in 2009, and my Landlord has a Linksys WRT320N router. Additionally, I do not have a phone line that can cause any interference.

I really want to get this fixed, their HAS to be some sort of resolution. I would have to get a phone line and DSL to provide my own internet, and I really cant afford it.

Any help is appreciated.

 

You can get an old linksys router and put DD-WRT on it and run it in "repeater" mode. What that basically does is the router takes his signal and then amplifies it so you'd have full signal in your place. Getting another Linksys N router might be good too because repeating causes loss of 1/2 the bandwidth. If you only need 4Mbps then it wont matter but getting 10-15Mbps might be tough for a G router.

IF you want to spend money for a good connection you can get a dual & simultaneous band router. Meaning you can use the 2.4Ghz band for "client" mode and use the 5Ghz for regular signal pickup to your laptop (provided you have A/B/G/N card in that laptop. THe Intel 4965/5300/6200/6300 all do that so check the device manager and see.