Author Topic: Turn your old Router into a Repeater (Read 1364 times)

DeepCopy · « **on:** May 06, 2012, 09:18:27 pm »

SOURCE: http://lifehacker.com/5563196/turn-your-old-router-into-a-range+boosting-wi+fi-repeater

MY THOUGHTS:
Well a friend of mine lives out in the boonies and he was having trouble borrowing his neighbors open wifi network to murk on mw3. I was starting to get a little crazy and was about to get an omnidirectional antenna and wire it to the ps3, idk I was gonna do it. But then I started thinking and I remember seeing something on lifehacker so I looked it up. Found the page above and I asked him if he had a router. He just so happened to have a dd-wrt compatible router (Linksys WRT54G2v1) So I was like ok, let get hacking. I flashed dd-wrt on his router set it up as a repeater and then boom ps3 is online with a good signal.

NOTE:
This also will degrade the quality of the line so expect slower speeds if you are going to be doing this!

I'm not going to copy/paste the tutorial, just read it, they even give directions on how to flash dd-wrt on your router!

noob · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2012, 01:19:00 am »

Im doing this with Air Live for last 3 year,he standing on windows stilling neighbors internet and im chiling on 2 laptops in my apartment.

silenthunder · « **Reply #2 on:** May 09, 2012, 04:47:49 am »

i have 8 computers in my room, and only 2 are wireless (not including laptops). i have a couple of ethernet switches lying around.. if i can find another old router of my moms i'll probably do this and LAN a switch to the router so all my computers can have internet :3

techb · « **Reply #3 on:** May 09, 2012, 06:36:53 am »

I've seen some cool things done with dd-wrt and openwrt. Routers are a great platform for robotics.

There really isn't a reason to do it here at my house, but my uncle down in Virginia, this would come in handy for his garden and gazebo/bar/grill in the wetlands behind his house.

DeepCopy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 09, 2012, 07:19:40 pm »

Yeah I have no reason to do it but it was fun to do and pretty cool how it works. My router (old school wrt54gs v7) has dd-wrt running on it, however I just have it set up as a router. But it reaches everywhere... But yes, a garage, outhouse, etc. would be nice to get wifi