I just moved to a bigger apartment and my router signal peaks right before the edge of it, which is were I just installed my home server, an old laptop with ubuntu server I use to store media and as a printer server.
So the idea is to make the server act as a range extender as well, problem is I can't find any documentation on how to do it.
Can it be done?
I use this script described in this post to create a hotspot in my Ubuntu server:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/how-to-set-up-wireless-hotspot-access.html
Basically, it helps you create a hotspot. You'll need to have two interfaces in the computer you want to use, one connected to the internet, and the serving the hotspot.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ap-hotspot
When it's installed, run:
sudo ap-hotspot configure
It will ask you a few questions (internet interface, wireless interface to create the access point, password) and then the hotspot can be run and stopped with:
sudo ap-hotspot start
sudo ap-hotspot stop
Note than this script automates the process of creating the hotspot, which can be done manually installing and configuring dns-masq and hostapd, but the result is the same.
