OpenWRT questions

[Evan Leibovitch]

On 4 September 2012 16:13, Anthony Verevkin <anthony-P5WJPa9AKEcsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:


> >     2. A repeater that will magnify weak wifi signals (again, useful
> >     in a hotel room if they have wifi but it's weak)
>
> You will have to have two radios in order to relay the signal (one working
> in Access point mode and the other being a wireless client). Then you can
> route the traffic between the zones. Otherwise you could have set up WDS
> mode to do the repeater job with just one radio, but you would need to
> change the settings of the hotel AP accordingly which is not possible in
> your case. So two radios it is -- either get the second router, or get the
> router with two radios built-in (I don't know if such exist), or you might
> get a chance with a USB wifi dongle connected to your USB port. This is a
> fun way of doing this but you would need to gain some deeper knowledge of
> OpenWRT to make it work.
>

Or I could have stuck with the factory Chinese ROM :-P. Repeater mode was
claimed in the stock version.


- Evan
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