Wireless Networking setup in an Apartment

Hey guys I'm looking for some assistance in setting up my home network when I move into an apartment.

Currently everything works fine and I can share files and what not between computers and I print wireless over the network just fine as well. I have it all set up through a Netgear 42 router.

My question / concern is: When moving to the new apartment, the internet is provided through the apartment and its all wireless. Therefore there would be no way for me to just plug and Ethernet cable from the wall jack to the input part on my router to just keep picking up and resuming like normal.

Is it possible to maintain the currently functionality of my network after the move? If so could you describe how please. I'm pretty sure as long as the router would be plugged in the network functionality would be there but there wouldn't be any internet it would broadcast. So if I wanted internet I'd have to join the apartment's network on my computer, and If I wanted file sharing I'd have to switch back to my network.

Is there a way to have them both on the same network, by getting the apartments internet to come through my router somehow?

Any help / advice will be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!!

 

You would just use a Router behind Router scheme, if you want to keep your network from being seen by other dwellers in the building.

 

Hey brownizs!! Thanks for the reply. Do you have any tutorials / instructions I can follow for setting this up?

From searching the web I think what your referring to might be similar to what I found. I think it involves enabling the wireless repeating function on my router perhaps?

I'm currently googling router behind router looking for some setup guides but if you know any that would be much appreciated!

 

Here you go for networking inf, best resource on the web http://ezlan.net/ As for router behind router This is about the best tutorial I can find, that best explains how to to it. http://kb.linksys.com/Linksys/GetArticle.aspx?docid=785463d9ecaf4cac84aed245b08d615f_3733.xml&pid=80 Another good resource http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-howto/24428-howtotwoprivlan

 

Thanks for those links. It looks like the preferred way to do this is through a wired connection between my router and the existing router. What are your suggestions if that isn't possible?

The only option I have is the wireless internet the apartment provides. Now I did try enabling the wireless repeating option on my router, but it looks like you can't put any security passwords on your home network this way?

Also today I tried enabling the wireless repeating option and I did have internet. On the network map it showed my PC connecting to my router, my router to the apartment's gateway, and then to the internet. The only issue was I was no longer able to access my routers configuration settings. Even when I typed in the IP it just kept saying this page cannot be displayed.

Do you have any thoughts / advice on this? Thanks.