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| Thread ID: 88824 | 2008-04-10 07:22:00 | Wireless router bridging with different brands? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 657770 | 2008-04-10 07:22:00 | Greetings all, Ive got a nice little setup with the WRT54g, does good, gets HUGE range with the bigger antennae Ive put on it, and Im overall pretty happy. However, it doesnt quite reach the Office at the church (We live right next-door), so when down in the church office the door must be open to even get a semi-stable signal. Ive moved the WRT54g around and its currently in the best place. In a nutshell Im looking to get another wireless router placed in the garage window that *should* reach the WRT54g and increase the 'range' of the wireless network a lil more :) Here's what my network currently looks like: www.gliffy.com The WRT54g is using encryption and MAC filtering (Ive added the new Asus WL-520GC to the whitelist -- It was only $55 on special from QMB) but cant seem to get them to play nice... Ideally I'd rather not have to chop & change between the "linksys" and the "asus" wireless network, coz it'd be cool if it was nicely bridged and all wireless devices could see all other wireless devices regardless of which AP they're closest to. Any thoughts / comments / suggestions / recommendations appreciated Cheers Chill. |
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| 657771 | 2008-04-10 07:37:00 | Is This here (www.linksys.com) the sort of thing you are after, if you stick with Linksys all the way you shouldn't have to may problems. if thats of any use - that sites in the US, but they are available in NZ, just do a Google/NZ search |
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| 657772 | 2008-04-10 10:14:00 | Unfortunately because the budget was $0 it was difficult enough a time to get the $55 Asus AP.. unless somebody wants a WRT54g for $55? ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 657773 | 2008-04-10 19:56:00 | Chilling_Silence by the look of that image your neighbours are the only ones not getting any:-) | Bantu (52) | ||
| 657774 | 2008-04-10 21:54:00 | Actually, it works about 4 houses down on my laptop, depending on direction ;) Just not in the direction that I want it to, hence the additional router :( |
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| 657775 | 2008-05-03 22:38:00 | Excellent news! Well at first it was bad news, the wrt54g died. No lies, I'm out in the living room watching my sister traverse through all my network shares wirelessly as she tries to find some recent photos. She's been clicking frantically, cant find them, then she hits the "Up one level" button and it just freezes. I check her network settings, IP address = fine, cant ping router though, so go pull out the power and restart the WRT54g. Wait a min, then try again, still no joy. So I grab my EeePC, its suffering the same problem. So I forget about it and switch her over to the Asus router which works just fine. Anyways, I plug into the LAN port of the WRT54g yesterday because I should be doing Uni assignments, but I get bored and easily distracted, Java programming just isn't my thing. I find the Web interface comes up now of the router, so its *just* wireless that isn't working. So I start looking for a firmware upgrade for it, now that nobody in the house is using it I figure it could be a cool chance to try a non-std firmware on it (Previously I'd been really hesitant coz Ive got a v5 which isnt quite as straight-forward to flash with something like DD-WRT). Now Im reading about the Sveasoft ones and my browsing takes me to the DD-WRT page and I find that it actually supports my little Asus WL-520gc! Brilliant! So I flash DD-WRT micro onto my Asus WL-520gc and its fine :) And while Im setting it up with the same SSID & WEP Key as before (So my family doesnt have to re-config AGAIN) I notice that it can do Bridging! "Excellent", I thought, now if I can get the WRT54g upgraded, Im sure I can find a How-To out there. Turns out I found this: www.bitsum.com Did the upgrade, painless! Searched for a Bridging how-to: www.dd-wrt.com Its working brilliantly! :D So, not only was the upgrade rather painless, but the DD-WRT has QoS stuff that seems to work pretty well also! Im hooked! Now, If you see me on the street, keep me away from your routers! I'll flash them! ;) |
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