{"id":948,"date":"2007-06-08T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/08\/extend-your-wifi-network-the-repeater-solution\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:00:37","slug":"extend-your-wifi-network-the-repeater-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/08\/extend-your-wifi-network-the-repeater-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Extend your WiFi network, the repeater solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

The #1 problm of WiFi networks (well before the speed of data transfers)? Merely, the network range. There is always a corner of the office or of the house that is not reachable (or nearly not reachable) with your WiFi-enabled laptop: in the master’s room upstairs when the router is installed in the office downstairs, for example.<\/p>\n

Solution #1: buy a range extender or a repeater. But this is usually very expensive (several hundred dollars).<\/p>\n

Solution #2: reconfigure a 60-80$ router to transform it into a nice cheap WiFi repeater (a device that takes the WiFi signal, amplifies it, and re-broadcast it at full power to extend the available range).<\/p>\n

I was thinking about this when I found the two interesting explanations describing how to install a new “DD-WRT” firmware on a consumer wireless network router (like a Linksys WRT54GL) and to configure it as a repeater:<\/p>\n