On Oct 27, 2011 6:41 PM, "Genes MailLists" <li...@sapience.com> wrote: > > On 10/27/2011 08:01 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > > I have a Linksys wrt54G V8 wireless 4-port router. I need to connect > > to a wireless access point through this router's radio and then share > > the connection to the wired units in my office. It would also be nice > > if I could set up the router to be a repeater for the incoming wifi > > connection. > > > > F14 in use on the workstation, various others sometimes in use. I know > > this is not necessarily the best list but where would be better? > > > > (1) With dd-wrt firmware you can use the wrt54g to connect to the wifi > access point and bridge the network to the wired ports - [1] > > (2) not sure you can then use same radio to be a 'repeater' - but for > a few bucks you could use the wired connection to be the internet for > another wifi router and together the pair of them would be a > pseudo-repeater of the original wifi - it probably would need to be a > different SSID than the original otherwise it might confuse the dd-wrt > which might want to connect to the closer one - so not true repeater - > however you'd have wifi at least even tho SSID is different. i.e. you > could not roam from original AP to your "repeater" without changing > wireless networks ... > > > maybe someone else has a better suggestion .. > > gene > > > [1] I have used dd-wrt to do exactly this even when the original wifi > required 802.1x authentication. > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
I'd concur with the general approach, but using OpenWRT instead of dd-wrt, due to the latter's growing propensity to push the boundaries of the GPL. Expanding on the thought is surely off topic and left as an exercise for the reader.
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