dd-wrt
January 16th, 2008 Stephen Lau
Like most geeks, I’d heard of dd-wrt. But, I’d never used it… mostly because I had two excellent WR850g Motorola routers whose stock firmware allowed me to setup a WDS network with the two devices.
Lately I’ve been going through the house trying to find unnecessary things to unplug (yeah yeah, those PG&E ads running late night on Chinese TV are starting to influence me I guess), so my thoughts turned to the two routers. The main reason I have two of them is to ensure I had enough signal coverage in all parts of the house. I started googling for mods I could do, and lo and behold… it turns out that dd-wrt is compatible with the WR850g too.
Damn. Well, I have two of ‘em - so what the hell. I flashed one of them up to the dd-wrt v2.3 SP2, and upped the transmit power to 80mW (from the default 28mW, and it’s plugged into a high gain antenna) and the one router provides excellent coverage throughout the entire house now, and I can happily unplug the second router.
Now my aim is to bring that second router with another high gain antenna down to my parents house which also had crappy wireless coverage and hopefully remedy that. 
[tags: Computers, OpenSource]
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