Greetings, folks...
Not EXACTLY ham-related, but since there's about a metric buttload of
smarts on radio topics here, figured I might get some useful input.

The situation:
Guess-timated 800 feet of co-ax "abandoned in place" between house and
outbuilding. Once supplied CATV signal to apartment in the outbuilding,
now connected to nothing at either end. I can't find any definitive
markings on the exposed sections to tell me precisely what "flavor" it
is, but I'd suspect it's "just plain old Cable TV wire" - RG-58?

The goal:
Run a computer with an 802.11 card (2.417-2.467 GHz) in the
outbuilding's apartment, and have the wireless connect to the router in
the house. Not possible at the moment due to lack of signal. ("No access
point in range" diagnostic from the card's 'ware.)

Secondary goal:
Spend little or no $$$ in the doing.

The restrictions:
The owner of the router in the house forbids ANY modification of the
router - no screwing one of those fancy 802.11 range extender antennas
onto the beast, etc., but if I can do it using other methods, I'm
welcome to.

The thought:
Attach a properly tuned antenna to each end of the co-ax, position the
one at the house end as near the router as possible, and park the
machine in the apartment near the other end. I'm thinking a sort of
"radio pipeline" here.

The workability:
That's where you guys come in! Does this plan fall into the "utterly
hopeless - you're nuts!" category, or is it a "Might work, if you
sacrifice a goat over the contraption during the dark of the moon whilst
chanting to the wireless gods" concept? Or better yet, is it a case of
"It should work just fine!"?

Any thoughts/suggestions welcome...

Thanks in advance!

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