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    turn a wireless router into a repeater via firmware?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Noterev, Nov 26, 2008.

  1. Noterev

    Noterev Notebook Consultant

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    Open WRT and DD Wrt have been around for some time. You can upload these firmware packages and turn run of the mill wireless routers into repeaters and super routers.

    Ok so, turning a router into a repeater via firmware is nothing new.

    Well, I've got this old Airlink AR410W in my junk box and I got to thinking, who couldn't use a repeater around the house?

    Airlink makes an AP411W repeater. Same chipset and memory size as the AR410W.

    Any hardware guys out there?
    ...flash the router with the repeater firmware? ;)
     
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  2. husky55

    husky55 Notebook Evangelist

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    Go to the DD-WRT forum and lookup a sticky about client bridge and repeater bridge. It has all the info you need.

    I run a repeater bridge with virtual LAN and WDS with DD-WRT firmware.
     
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  3. Noterev

    Noterev Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds good, but I don't think I have enough trunk space for it.

    This little router I'm talking about only has about a MB of memory for firmware. DDWrt is about 2 1/2 megs or thereabouts, right? Otherwise yea, it'd be perfect to play around with.
     
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    husky55 Notebook Evangelist

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    2 MB for the micro version, 4 MB for mini and std.

    Your router is not supported.
     
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    Noterev Notebook Consultant

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    Yea, I figured as much.

    Well, there's that other firmware I was talking about.
    If odds are better than even that it would work...

    Do I feel lucky?
     
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    Be careful not to brick it.
     
    Wirelessman, Nov 26, 2008
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