Hi,
Okay, I was led to believe that I could do this, so I bought everything and I'm getting close. Here is my situation:
I have an antenna setup. The antenna used to be on my roof, but we started a major construction project and now the antenna is on my garage roof. The problem is two-fold: The antenna is about 70 feet from my house and I have about 30 feet of paved driveway between the house and garage. So a wired Ethernet connection is impossible (I'm told you can get a powerline network connection, but pretend that doesn't exist for the sake of my current issue).
I have purchased two encore enhwi-n2 routers and a hdhomerun to connect to one of the routers. I have configured (loose terminology since I'm asking for help) the first router to connect to the HDhomerun and placed that in my garage - it took some work for it to find the HDhomerun when the router was NOT connected to the computer, but the ethernet port for the HDhomerun is lit up now. (Vista requires some configuration from the router and finally it states that the router can be disconnected and work wirelessly.) I then connect the second router (which finds an extender), but, alas, it will not find the dedicated HDhomerun router.
I may be able to get around this by connecting an adapter card, but I need a router at my HTPC for secondary connections.
Any help would be appreciated
bytor
An update:
If anyone ever wants to try this - it can work with the right setup of your two routers (I spent a lot of time on the phone with the manufacturer), but the HDHomerun would lock up every 3-5 days and I would have to shut down the computer, the HDH, and the routers then reboot to get it back up running. It was a pain - maybe better routers would work in the future, but for my needs it was not working. I ended up cutting a 50 foot channel in my asphalt and I ran a line from my garage to my house. Problem solved. HDH runs flawlessly.