Create an own network from my landlords wifi

[SirBAseN]

Hello

I am just about to move to my first own "apartment". I will be renting a room with an own entrance in the house of an older couple.

I will have internet-access through WiFi, but have no possibility to route a cable to my room.

I want to connect my computer that has no WiFi and i would also like to have some kind of a NAS-solution in the near future.

Is there any way of creating my own "private" network that will be connected to internet through the public WiFi of my landlord. I want the connected devices to be private so that i could use a NAS without my landlord having access to it.

I have read and found a lot of different information but I am not sure if I have understood everything.

One solution seems to be to buy a WiFi-repeater with a Ethernet-port and connect it to a an own router. Instead of a repeater i have also read that you could use an access point as an bridge to connect to the router. I have also found some travel-routers that seems to be doing what I want but I do not know how the performance are on those.

I use internet for gaming, watching movies, browsing web, speaking with friends through discord and so on.

Except for the computer i will have a laptop, a mobile and maybe an xbox connected.

Is there any good solution for what i want to achieve? Preferably with good ping and speeds.

 

[RealBeast]

If your landlord is open to your using the wireless, perhaps they would allow you to use a set of powerline adapters (AV2-1000 or better). That is the only way that you will really get an adequate latency for gaming. You can attach a router to the powerline adapter in your room and set it up as a separate network with the landlord router IP address as your WAN address but use the DHCP on your router in a different network range for your use.

That will give you wireless, but also allow you to attach to an LAN port of your router for lower latency gaming.

HERE is a link to a good comparison of various PL adapter models to consider.

 

[SirBAseN]

If your landlord is open to your using the wireless, perhaps they would allow you to use a set of powerline adapters (AV2-1000 or better). That is the only way that you will really get an adequate latency for gaming. You can attach a router to the powerline adapter in your room and set it up as a separate network with the landlord router IP address as your WAN address but use the DHCP on your router in a different network range for your use.

That will give you wireless, but also allow you to attach to an LAN port of your router for lower latency gaming.

HERE is a link to a good comparison of various PL adapter models to consider.

I will definitely check out powerline, but I am not sure if he will allow me to use a solution like that. It seems like the best solution though.

If I am not allowed to use powerline. Is it possible to do the same thing with a bridge? If I use a bridge to router solution, would it be better for latency to have a pci-wifi-network-card for my computer that I can use when I game, connected directly to his router and connect to my own router for when I am doing everything else or would it not be any difference doing so?

 

[RealBeast]

Possibly, but it is not just add a wireless device on your end and it can be difficult and depends a great deal on the specific equipment used. WDS is not standardized and often is problematic within a single brand. Also, you may want to consider dd-wrt firmware if you simply cannot use PL adapters.

Will they allow you access to their router to make changes to it?

The other problem is that you are relying on two different wireless connections that will decrease bandwidth and create frequent but unpredictable latency issues. Gaming will be close to impossible unless all you need is the connection to Steam to start a single player game, multiplayer gaming will be pretty much unplayable with the best of solutions that use two wireless links in this sort of situation. It is bad enough just using one wireless connection to game.

There is one solution that you can use to test how the wireless approach will work for you though -- use a laptop or desktop with a wireless adapter and a trial version of Connectify (the trial is only good for like a month) to manage the wireless transition from one subnet to the second -- I use it in hotels but it doesn't work well for gaming in my experience. And Connectify gives the best results using 2 wireless adapters but can be done with one if you create a virtual miniport (simple in W7 but a little more work required in W10 by using THIS).

tl;dr A wireless to wireless solution is possible but difficult and doesn't work well for gaming.