I have been helping someone I know get a network up and running. He has the router hooked up to a desktop and wants to get internet on his laptop. The problem is where he wants to pick up the signal, he is inside an all metal building. The metal interferes with the signal and he can't pick it up, even standing outside the building. He is only about 50 feet away from the router.
We are looking at buying an antenna that hooks up to the router and see if that will work. I wondered if that doesn't work, could he run an ethernet cable from the router that is hooked up to the desktop and run it inside the metal building and hook the cable up to another router? Would that send the signal out without being hooked up to a computer?