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

[Jim March]

What's "WDS"?

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Matthew T. Eskes <meskes at gmail.com> wrote:
> The linksys routers support WDS, both lazy and fixed. So he doesn't *need*
> to have something else on there as long as it supports something like that.
> Iirc, though I have Buffalo gear now, that you could go as far as bridging
> with the stock Linksys firmware as well.
>
> Again, I could be wrong.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> March
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:35 PM
> To: bexley401 at yahoo.com; Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] FS: Linksys WRT54G with the excellent v.2 chipset
> -alreadyflashed with DD-WRT full edition
>
> 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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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