Now this is a kinda tricky question.
A pal of mine and I live in a student's hostel which already has an ethernet network along with internet. However, it's a rather crappy 1 GB per month limit thing, so we decided to get ourselves DSL.
However, we our apartements are almost as far away from each other as possible, so the question is how to connect both our rooms to a single DSL line.
My ideas are:
1) Get a router and plug it into the ethernet-plug in my wall. Problem: Everybody in the house can now use that connection (NOT good).
2) Get a WLAN router and network card. Pro: Easy and just plain cool. Con: Roughly 5-7 15cm thick walls, the whole distance is about 40m.
3) A Linux PC as router, along with some sort of authentication.
My dream solution would be a DSL hardware router which allows you to enter specific MAC addresses which may use the connection and blocks all other addresses.
So, any hints?
A pal of mine and I live in a student's hostel which already has an ethernet network along with internet. However, it's a rather crappy 1 GB per month limit thing, so we decided to get ourselves DSL.
However, we our apartements are almost as far away from each other as possible, so the question is how to connect both our rooms to a single DSL line.
My ideas are:
1) Get a router and plug it into the ethernet-plug in my wall. Problem: Everybody in the house can now use that connection (NOT good).
2) Get a WLAN router and network card. Pro: Easy and just plain cool. Con: Roughly 5-7 15cm thick walls, the whole distance is about 40m.
3) A Linux PC as router, along with some sort of authentication.
My dream solution would be a DSL hardware router which allows you to enter specific MAC addresses which may use the connection and blocks all other addresses.
So, any hints?
