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Problem with making my old Linksys wireless router a extender

Started by waterorjuice320 , Jun 05 2012 11:04 AM

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waterorjuice320

Posted 05 June 2012 - 11:04 AM

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Hi there guys ive been trying to make my wireless router a extender my room is in the basement i get good internet down here but i was hoping that with my old router i could use it as a ethernet hub so i can use one of my rigs to do diskless network booting seeing as you cant do that over wireless any ideas??? or other ideas basically i have desktop downstairs router and wireless router upstairs and i want to use my desktop to bridge the internet to a hub so from that hub i can use wired net?

Thanks in advance,

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Posted 05 June 2012 - 01:54 PM

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You don't specify the model of your router. If it's the ubiquitous WRT54 have you considered an alternate firmware like DD-WRT or Tomato? Both have wireless bridge support.