daisy chaining 2 wireless modems
 

Is it possible?
I have a wireless router that is hooked up to an outside antenna and works great in the new shop and actually about 1/2 mile or so away. But, works like shit inside the house. So, I find myself with an extra wireless router. Can they be daisy chained?

The Apple brand ones can, real easy to do. I have no idea about doing this on other brands.

http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
Scroll down to "Extend Your Network."

I was just coming to say nevermind...I did it :)
Now I have an excellent connection in the house, anyplace. And, an excellent connection about 1/2 mile away from the house. Now I just have to figure out a way to make sure nobody else hooks up.

My younger step brother who lives in the Philippines drives around with a big antenna hacking into people's networks as a hobby.

Look out your window, be afraid, your keystrokes from your bluetooth keyboard is being recorded…

Most wireless networks can be encrypted. I've got mine set up that way on general principle. Doesn't seem like a good idea to broadcast everything in the open... If I feel like surfing from my front porch, which is too far from my router for a good connection, there are two unsecured wireless networks in range that I can use. I guess the neighbors are being generous.

But the encryption is often poor and many don't use proper key exchange, which makes it very easy to read. Encrypted or not it's not that hard to connect to most wireless networks and once someone is connected to your internal network it doesn't take long to install new stuff.

Of course I used to put a sniffer on my cable connection and see everything the neighbors were doing. Most IT professionals think that a firewall offers some protection against that but they're clueless :)

Should not be a big issue for you to secure the network. It depends on the routers you are using. Should be WEP or WAP for your encryption and will work off the mac addys of the cards you are using. Most routers now will allow you to get to them via a web browser and you will see the MAC addys of the systems connected to them. Tell them to allow those MAC's and use the WEP or WAP. First time you connect to the router with the system it should ask you for a KEY, Which is like a password that you assign in the router. After that, not many people are going to have the skills to sit outside your house and break the KEY. If they do then let them take what they want cause to break a 128 bit encryption will take them quite some time. And then they need software to place the encryption back together. All can be gotten free off the net, but in my experience 90% of the people who can break it easily are not concerned with mom and pop. Their breaking much bigger fish.

I noticed a large ford sedan parked in front of my house today with tinted windows, a satellite dish on the trunk (boot, for you Brits) and license plates which read 2257 GOV. Two more identical cars passed by, which leads me to believe that they were attempting to triangulate my position. They left when I began mowing my lawn in the buff with Buddy Christ hanging from my freshly shorn testicles.

An easy way to secure your wireless network is to ONLY allow certain mac addresses to connect.
Sure you have to manually add a device if you want to connect with it...say a friend over with his laptop or pda....but it really is a secure and quite easy way to keep unwanted snoopers off your network.
This won't stop them sniffing what you are sending back and forth, but they won't be able to get into your devices or use your bandwidth for surfing. Encryption is an added part of your security to help mask your traffic, and no matter what stop your routers and access points from broadcasting their ssids