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I've just moved flats and BT tells me it will be almost two months before they can make it all the way to Hackney to hook up a phone line. Which means no broadband in the flat. As a consolation prize, I have been told I can have access to BT Fon/Openzone in the mean time (which, actually, is a pretty decent way of handling it by them. They didn't offer it, to be honest, but I asked and they said yes).
Anyway. I can find a BT Fon and Openzone AP from my flat. But, there are only two places which allow me to get stable-ish connections (1 bar). I figured I could put a repeater in a place with a good connection, and voila! Internet in the whole flat..
This sound logical to people? If so, anyone got a repeater I can borrow for a couple months/buy for cheap? Or, anyone know how to turn a BT Home Hub (V.1 or 2) into a repeater? I've read up about it online and I've seen instruction on how to do it if the master hub is also a BT Home Hub (which, most BT Fon APs are). But I couldn't really figure it out (I would need to know, I think, the IP range of the master hub).
Finally, BT Fon has a login process via a web page, not WEP or WPA or whatever else there might be (like a coffee shop or airport). Any repeaters out there have the power to handle this themselves? I also have a BT Vision box which I'd like to be able to use, and I suspect this is necessary (although it has a freeview PVR, it won't boot without an internet connection). I believe DD-WRT can do this, but I don't really know for sure.
Help me, Obi-Wan, you're my only hope.