[clue-tech] Request for Comments: Wireless repeater

[Brian Gibson]

Tomato is a breeze to setup.  It loaded all the settings I had with the stock firmware including password.  Awesome.  I went with Tomato because I wanted wake-on-LAN capability and the stock Linksys firmware does not let you send the magic packet.  I have an ethernet bridge using OpenWRT installed on a Fon Fonera connected to it, thanks to Zach demonstrating the device way back when.




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From: "dennisjperkins at comcast.net" <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
To: CLUE technical discussion <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 7:18:45 AM
Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Request for Comments: Wireless repeater


You could look into Tomato.  It's simpler to set up.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Stanczyk" <stanczyk at pcisys.net>
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Cc: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2010 12:03:54 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [clue-tech] Request for Comments: Wireless repeater

My mother keeps asking me for technology.  She uses her neighbor's wireless
to get on the internet, with permission thankfully.  The connection is near
the limit for her nearly G wireless laptop.

So she needs a wireless repeater.  My first impulse is a Linksys dd-wrt
flashed router in a repeater mode.  Not a problem.

But before I ship it, I'd thought I ask around for comments.  Different
hardware is a possibility but I'd like something that could be reconfigured
back to a standard router later on.

Different software is a possibility too.  I'm not set on dd-wrt, it's just
the first thing that jumps to mind.

Oh and remote support is high on the list.  My mom is not that technical.
She's learning but anything more complicated than programming her vcr and
she's lost.

thanks!
Mike
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