can my router pick up the internet from another router?

Question

there is an unsecured internet connection that is broadcast from a router within my range, i have a router, can i pick up this signal? im able to from my laptop, but the only options i get from my desktop with the router is to do with sending a signal, not recieving.

do i simply have the wrong hardware and cannot do this with a router?

i have a new belkin G router. can this thing even pick up signals or can it only broadcast? if it can, how do i go about searching for network signals on my computer?

Answer 1

Most routers are designed to be Access Points. Meaning they connect from a DSL/Cable line to your local computers and "Route" from the LAN (local area network) the the WAN/INTERNET (wide area network) port. Since the radio installed in them is on the local side it can connect all your local computers together but you need something on the WAN side to connect to the internet. This is the case with your belkin.

Some include a WDS system which allows you to rebroadcast another routers signal but to use that both routers have to be specifically allowed within each others WDS settings. Unless the owner of the other router which you can "see" enters your router information in his router and you enter his settings in your router then they will not work in that mode.

Basically you need your own internet connection!

There are in all states as well as in federal law, in the US and UK, laws which make what you are attempting illegal! Mainly because you are entering into someone elses network and without permission that is illegal.
(See the following on Wifi theft

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/cip/hacklaw.htm

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001030----000-.html
)

There are some other types of devices that do what you are asking, they are bridges. (Some routers can be set into that mode most belkins can not.)

Answer 2

Vinard guy, i visit maintain you loads of issues and time by skill of answering this question becaue I had the comparable situation which you had. precisely the comparable. information superhighway-much less computing device with out on the spot purposes, on the spot router with get entry to to the information superhighway, and a spare router. After searching for DAYS of the thank you to make the router p.c.. up a on the spot sign from yet another router and making it "supply information superhighway" to my computing device by skill of connecting it... i got here across that it is not achieveable. it somewhat is not achieveable by way of fact of how routers artwork interior the interior. it somewhat is achieveable although, to purchase an extremely long cable, and connect your spare router on your router with information superhighway get entry to and take the spare router it is now linked a approaches away to "enhance" the on the spot sign selection, or connect suggested spare router to the computing device, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that it would finally end up in being an extremely long sequence of units bodily linked mutually via cables. Your ultimate answer guy, is paying for a wireless adapter on your guy or woman computing device computing device. that's what I did interior the top. It value me 20 money and it solved my issues. you additionally can attempt an exterior USB wireless adapter, yet those are frequently extra costly and much less effective. do merely no longer confuse a wireless adapter with a Bluetooth on the spot Adapter, that's a mistake that value me approximately 25 money as you may not connect with wireless employing a Bluetooth adapter. yet another answer is to purchase a on the spot sign repeater. i'm uncertain if that's what you call them in English, yet they're merely units which you place around your place that p.c.. the sign from the router and re-transmit the sign further to, case in point, yet another repeater or a on the spot customer. a number of this repeaters have Ethernet ports so which you may use to connect them on your guy or woman computing device.

Answer 3

No. The router is receiving signal from the wireless LAN of the computers only. Not the router.

Good Luck,