Bridging(?) WiFi

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InSanCen

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Okay.

My Dad has decided to go with this "new-fangled Wireless internet", by which he means WiFi in his house, (And yes, he really did say that)

Only problem is he wants to cover his whole house, and as it's fricking massive, even using my 'N' router in a central-ish position, I can't get coverage in some of the farther away parts.

I've had a look around on how to do this and short of very expensive business level repeaters, Iand decided I needed Linksys WRT series routers with DD-WRT on there to re-distribute the signal where the signal is weak/non-existant. Great, done, DD-WRT is now flashed (Albeit, the Micro version, it's working as far as I can see).

Except now I can't find a reliable guide on bridging them to another router to re-distribute the signal. I know it's possible, but I am not a networking Guru (Though I know the basics).

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Is there a better way to do this without more investment in routers (I bought 2 Linksys DD-WRT54GS routers to do this), as my Dad is now having a whinge-fest about non-coverage (In area's he'll never use, probably:mad:).

Any help appreciated.
 
You'd have been better with WRt54GLs, if you can get away with returning them and swapping them.

That aside, bridging doesn't do what you want, unless you're planning on running cables to both routers - what you're after is WDS. The option should be in the routers' web interface, probably under Wireless.
 
Can't return them now, as it's over 28 days. They were clearence anyway, so nice and cheap (£10 each, brand new)

I'll have a look into WDS, cheers Tolien. If Bridging doesn't do what I want, it might be because it just can't, rather then me boing a complete idiot (There's a first!)
 
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