[dorkbotdc-blabber] dear lazy web... wifi repeaters

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I have a WRT54GL and I was having signal strength issues at home. I
ended up upgrading the firmware to unlock the antenna strength option.

The firmware I am currently running is:
Firmware Version: v4.71.1, Hyperwrt 2.1b1 + Thibor15c

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jason Schlauch
<jason.schlauch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Alberto Gaitán
> <alberto.gaitan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I want to travel to a wifi-spotty area and want to increase my chances of
>> being able to connect to open hotspots, can I buy a wifi repeater and
>> automatically pair it to an (possibly weak) open accesspoint?
>
> If you hack a Linksys WRT54G with the dd-wrt firmware you can
> configure it to work in a "bridged" mode where your laptop connects to
> the WRT54G (either wirelessly or via ethernet) and the WRT54G connects
> to a remote access point.
>
> This allows you some latitude for hacking the hardware since you'll
> probably be more willing to accept the risks associated with trashing
> the WRT54G than you would your laptop.
>
> There are lots of WRT54G antenna hacks out there.  Google it.
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