Do I need a bridge?

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Hi, im looking at improving the wireless network in our home. I've firstly bought a Linksys WRT54GL. I was planning on just using this to get signals to my room but have been told that it would be a good idea to get a bridge setup in my room. (The modem/router will be downstairs)


Would doing something similar to this: http://www.home-network-help.com/images/wireless-bridge-network.jpg

Be beneficial or should I just use the router?

(I cant get a wired connection from the router, most of the floors in the house are wooden so hard to hide wires)

Thanks!
 
Depends. But the simple answer is even for latency, the router downstairs (if in use by several devices simultaneously) will be the limiting factor if you used wires upstairs.

Honestly just using it as a repeater will be more than sufficient. Flash tomato http://victek.is-a-geek.com/tomato.html (1.28.8515ND), set up repeater* then forget about it until you need to replace the router.

*same SSID, channel and pwrd. & devices will automatically use the strongest signal.
 
Either will do, I'm just used to DDWRT.

Repeater mode looks for any wireless networks around and will replicate the signal. This has the effect of boosting the signal.
 
23JMZ07 said:
Either will do, I'm just used to DDWRT.

Repeater mode looks for any wireless networks around and will replicate the signal. This has the effect of boosting the signal.
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lool, whaat thats crazy. So basically you get to use other peoples signal despite it being secured to boost your own? :P
 
No, it just repeates the signal from the original source. Boosting is not really the right word I suppose. Copying the signal would be more appropriate.
 
In repeater mode, you would still need the same password/settings to access the net. You cant use them to hack other wireless networks.
 
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