[CoLoCo] using a router as wifi card???

[Brandan E. Lloyd]

Jim,

I use HyperWRT on my WRT54G to connect in client mode to my wireless
network for my printer.  I seems to work well and I haven't had to do
anything to it in over two years.  You will just need to check the
version of your router to make sure that you can load custom firmware
on it.  Linksys has fixed the newer versions of their routers.

Brandan

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> I've been booted out of my office so my kid can have her own room. One of
> the problems with the move is that my desktop will no longer be wired to my
> router/modem and I don't have a wifi card for it. Part of me doesn't want a
> wifi connection on my desktop anyway. I suspect it will be slower and
> perhaps less secure. However, short of running a long cable which may not
> even be feasible, I was wondering if it's possible to connect to a router
> with a cable and then make that router talk wirelessly to another router.
> I've heard that a Linksys router running dd-wrt can be set up as a range
> extender meaning that it would talk to another router rather than directly
> to a modem. If that is true, would it matter if you were connected to said
> router wired or wirelessly? In short, you would use a wired connection to a
> router as a replacement for a wifi card in the PC. Is this possible?
>
> Thanks.
>
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