Try using one cable from your neighbours router directly to your laptop. Should be as fast as when your neighbour connects his own laptop with a cable.
How long would that cable be?
Hello Networkers:
I wonder if you can help me; I'm trying to extend from a 'flaky' Wifi system using an ethernet cable directly to my laptop - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, with IP conflict errors appearing occasionally.
I'm trying to do this because the signal appears overly weak when trying to use just wifi (see below). wonder if you can offer some advice based on the following basic description:
1) Internet cable from ISP enters house in adjoining apartment (we share the same Wifi).
2) ISP cable enters Wifi router #1 in adjoining apartment
3) Ethernet cable #1 runs from Wifi router #1 through the wall to my apartment
4) I have my own router with Wifi and ethernet, let's call this Wifi router #2. Ethernet cable #1 enters my Wifi router #2.
5) Ethernet cable #2 runs from Wifi router #2 to my laptop in the other room.
*** I can and have used only wifi for all this, using my Wifi router as a repeater to boost signal, but signal still flakes frequently with need to reset wifi adapter several times an hour / hene attempted ethernet solution ***
Thanks for any advice re: how I may use the ethernet cables in existing system to run as seamlessly as possible from originating ISP entry

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