{"id":3782,"date":"2013-10-07T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2013-12-04T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T03:05:57","slug":"linksys-wrt54g-router-as-wireless-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/linksys-wrt54g-router-as-wireless-bridge","title":{"rendered":"Linksys WRT54G Router as Wireless Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With 2 desktop computers and 2 laptops with another desktop being added to the mix, I felt it was time to cut down on these wireless signals. My motivation is part security and part efficiency… with a dash of paranoia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While looking through old electrical gear, I found a Linksys WRT54G v8 wireless router. Bells started ringing in my head.<\/p>\n

I remembered reading an article on some custom firmware that allowed for routers to be turned into repeaters or a wireless bridge. When I looked it up, it turns out that the Linksys WRT54G v8 was a perfect candidate for this DD-WRT firmware<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a few Youtube videos<\/a> out there that will help you through the process, which seems intimidating, but really isn’t that complex. And for those preferring an text & image based tutorial there’s the bridge article by WIFI Planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For my particular router (the v8), I only needed to:<\/p>\n

1. Download the files from the DD-WRT Router Database (for the heck of it, grab em all). http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/site\/support\/router-database
\n2. In the admin panel of my Linksys router apply the vxworkskiller firmware. After applying this firmware, your router can only be accessed from a computer via a static IP and FTP.
\n3. Used the included tftp.exe file to upload the micro_generic firmware to my router.
\n4. Rebooted the router again and then inside the newly installed DD-WRT firmware, I followed these instructions to set it up as a wireless bridge. http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Client_Bridged<\/p>\n

Besides the speed benefits, I also have a little more security as I can just unplug a single device and all my computers are immediately taken offline. Also going to rest a little easier knowing I don’t have a half dozen wireless signals traveling through my body all night long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With 2 desktop computers and 2 laptops with another desktop being added to the mix, I felt it was time to cut down on these wireless signals. My motivation is part security and part efficiency… with a dash of paranoia. While looking through old electrical gear, I found a Linksys WRT54G v8 wireless router. Bells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,642,71,191,641],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer","tag-hack","tag-it","tag-internet","tag-router"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3830,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}