Comments on: WiFi Extension Problem Solved: DD-WRT

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By: WiFi DiY Antenna

WiFi DiY Antenna — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:03:10 +0000

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By: frank1985

frank1985 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:13:41 +0000

For AU$99 you can buy a Linux-based router from Freenet Antennas in Australia that will do bridging client mode (something not supposed to be allowed in 802.11 spec!) and do so flawlessly and with very little fuss. Also happily runs on <4W and a tiny amount of space, so very wife-friendly.

By: starbaseone2

starbaseone2 — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:00:24 +0000

This a great solution, one that served me quite well for several years at my last address! This well written and should help folk with no experience here get it up and running!

By: John Feeney

John Feeney — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:40:31 +0000

I have used DD-WRT a lot in the past. I even made yearly donations.

I tried this setup but it has one problem (or undocumented feature). While the computers in your garage setup can ping your office computers, your office computers will not be able to ping your garage computers.

I was trying a similar setup between two WRT160NLs. I need to set up remote access to some devices we have in a building in the back of our property. So the computers on the Primary Router’s leg of the network need to initiate connections with computers on the Client Router’s leg of the network. It does not work.

I tried to see if there were any solutions in any of the documentation but nothing even admits this issue exists. I also tried to get help from the DD-WRT community but absolutely zero help. I have since stopped making donations to DD-WRT.

By: luise

luise — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:38:55 +0000

Thanks for the article.

I am not familiar with DD-WRT but I am a linux user on my laptop and some servers for long.

I have a question. I need to make a similar setup but I need the second router (the WRT160NL in the article) also to provide wireless connection to several devices (computer, TV, etc). I gues it is related to “repeater mode” instead of “bridge mode”. Then, the question is if I can do it with DD-WRT and if I need to get two access/router wireless points in addition to the WAN router.

Thanks in advance

By: Bryan Richard

Bryan Richard — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:05:25 +0000

True, but I doubt many would know of it if is wasn’t for Mortimer’s Rumple series. Haggard died in 1925. “She” was published in 1887.

By: Pete Rotheroe

Pete Rotheroe — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:56:29 +0000

Actually, swmbo was first used in the novel “She” by H. Rider Haggard.

By: Bryan Richard

Bryan Richard — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:04:03 +0000

Hey, we don't get many Rumpole references on Linux Magazine!

By: sysadmn

sysadmn — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:16:10 +0000

the powers that be*

Usually abbreviated SWMBO, as in “She who must be obeyed”.

By: marlonrod

marlonrod — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:30:29 +0000

Did something similar with a netgear wireless router connected to the gateway and a WRT54 type router I had stashed away as a bridge so that I could connect my ethernet only Sony TV to the internet. Kids got to have their netflix with Thomas and friends, Word World, Cat in the Hat, etc. vids.

DD-WRT is awesome, so many more options than stock firmware.

By: jgabler

jgabler — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:19:13 +0000

Well, Linux is certainly cheaper than a divorce lawyer.

By: Peter Murray

Peter Murray — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:49:32 +0000

Blech…the last line should be:

Uverse Gateway <-wired-> Netgear <-wireless-> Linksys

By: Peter Murray

Peter Murray — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:47:52 +0000

I did the same thing as well to hook up a wired-only VoIP phone in an upstairs office. It works pretty well. I tried to put another Netgear router in the mix (so I’m not relying on the firewall capabilities of the Uverse gateway) and the added latency killed the VoIP connection.

Uverse Gateway Netgear Linksys

By: Michael Bergandi

Michael Bergandi — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:27:38 +0000

I did a similar setup at my in-laws using OpenWRT with a Linksys WRT54GL. Both in-laws run businesses from home. The internet access coming into the house was in the father-in-laws office on one side of the house and the mother-in-laws office was on the opposite side. The main router was an Actiontec MI424WR Verizon FiOS router. I set up the WRT54GL as the bridge in the mother-in-laws office and replaced the stock antennae with high-gain 7dbi antennae. Works like a charm :)