[Tfug] FS: Linksys WRT54G with the excellent v.2 chipset - alreadyflashed with DD-WRT full edition

[Jim March]

Ohhhhhkay...maybe I'm the one mis-understanding.

Say we have a Linksys v.2 router, all stock firmware.

Somebody ELSE has a distant free WiFi signal on a city freenet.

Our hypothetical newbie in Berkeley (not so hypothetical come to
think) has a Dell with a crappy Broadcom G internal WiFi card running
Hardy.  He's also got working Ethernet.  He knows the SSID of the
citynet, but can't reliably hook up to it from home.

So he connects the Linksys router.  With stock firmware, he can use
that to READ the citynet SSID and feed that into him as Ethernet?

I thought that needed DD-WRT, Tomato or other FOSS firmware?  There's
no functionality in the stock firmware for that.

Right?

Jim

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The non-tech user I had planned it for needed to use it in "client
>> mode" - *recieving* a WiFi signal and turning that into Ethernet.
>>
>> Or to put it another way: he needed to boost his WiFi signal
>> significantly...he's in a marginal reception zone.
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> I'm not sure I follow.  I use my WRT54G (with the excellent
> v.2 chipset) to receive a WiFi signal and turn it into
> ethernet.   I.e., my WRT54G feeds my bastion host (along
> with my PLC NIC) which, then, feeds my network.
>
> So, I could put the WRT54G on a 100' CAT5 and extend my
> network's geographical coverage by that 100 feet, etc.
>
> What am I not "getting" in this explanation?
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