a little wifi trickery

The main bedroom in my house doesn’t get a good signal from the wireless router in the living room and Nicholas and I have been trying to think of ways to remedy this for a little while. There are literally tens of wireless networks around our house so we’re guessing it’s due to all the interference. We started out thinking about just buying a better router, but that’s kind of expensive (and we already have two routers anyway) so we did some digging online.

As it turns out, you can turn take two Linksys WRT54G routers and link them wirelessly using WDS, essentially turning one of the routers into a repeater. We installed the necessary third-party HyperWRT firmware on both routers and then followed these directions to link them together. In the end, it didn’t really take that long and it works perfectly!

We both felt like such nerds that I just had to write about it.