Yes, following on from the last discussion, I said to a computer company owner about the prospect of them being made illegal. He was noncommittal, but I'm sure once his stock was sold out he'd tell people they should buy something else.
Said pal and I are prone to nattering, so I got as far as putting second unit under the perspex roof of a nearby workshop and I get three bars from there.
Most of the settings on his router seem to already be set to allow the relay procedure, but any further experimenting will have to be done when he won't need the net.
Using the dg834g as a repeater