[kwlug-disc] Extending WiFi Range

[Charles McColm]

Thanks Bill, yes we have a bucket-load of wifi routers, many N routers (there may even be the odd AC router). Quite honestly we're so swamped with other things in Computer Recycling that testing/reseting/sorting/organizing/documenting the routers has fallen by the way-side. At one point I had a grand-plan to put AdvancedTomato/DD-WRT/OpenWRT on some of the routers and create some documentation to help people looking at routers for the first time. I haven't had the chance and we haven't really had the expert-set/interest in that "router project."

If someone is interested in playing with the different routers around here and maybe helping by flashing a few with DD/Open-WRT I'd be happy to trade (the work) for a router or two. I think we have something like 30 or so routers. No massive "Night Hawk" routers, but some decent ones around.

Cheers,

Charles McColm, cr at theworkingcentre.org
http://www.theworkingcentre.org/cr/
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Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Extending WiFi Range

>
> The WRT1900AC and ACS recommended by others are expensive
 > (~ $250 at least).

Right, but if you swap in another (non-wifi) router, perhaps even
OpenWRT capable, you can then move your current one wherever you like.

Seems to me Charles had some older non-wifi / OpenWRT capable routers at
computer recycling for cheap.

As long as the WAN connection is faster than what your provider is
giving you, and I don't imagine it's even 100Mbps, you won't suffer for
the less speedy / capable equipment - it's just converting ethernet into
cable-speak.

(Careful though, when I tried this with my LinkSys ATA/Router - it kept
falling over. Couldn't handle the throughput. It was fine as an ATA,
just not as a router.)


On 03/30/2017 09:11 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
>
>
> I am actually involved in a similar project to extend wifi range. The
> plan is to use a $30 Mikrotik router as an access point, and disable
> the router features (exactly as Khalid was suggesting, except with
> evil proprietary Mikrotik stuff instead of angelic OpenWRT). But that
> is an indoor solution.
>
> If I can get WiFi inside the basement close to the walls, that maybe
>  just the ticket.
>
> Where do you buy the Mikrotik router from? Directly from the
> manufacturer?
>
> The WRT1900AC and ACS recommended by others are expensive (~ $250 at
> least).

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