Re: WiFi Repeaters
Most wireless routers will do a repeater scheme. Just remember it's splitting the bandpass to do it. The other thing that is a sleeper is if it has 2 antenna's on it (diversity) it only uses one at a time. If you use it as a repeater, use only one antenna in the setup, or it might lock on one leg and drop the connection.
It always works well to string a cable to feed a remote access point. You can daisy chain routers till you run out of addresses.
I manage a network of a dozen Cisco access points fed by several telephone gateways in a campus of metal buildings. They are interconnected with switches, cat 5, and fiber circuits. You can start a conversation on one of the portable IP phones as you approach the premises, and go anywhere without losing the connection. I calculated that I walked 14 miles, and climbed 850 feet of ladders the day I did the RF survey for the installation.