WRT150N

I found a setup that I like even better than my previous one. I have highlighted the main differences, in red, below. To set it up as repeater do the following: Do a 30 second reset Under wireless->basic settings: Wireless mode: AP Wireless Network Name (SSID): Your prefer SSID Wireless Channel: Your prefer channel ( Use channel with less interference from other access point) Save Settings Under Wireless > Wireless Security Set your wireless authentication Under Setup->Basic Setup: ...

This post is a reminder to myself in case I ever need to troubleshoot this setup process again, but I thought I would post it just in case it is useful to somebody else. A couple days ago I ordered myself a Linksys WRT150N to replace my aging Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I wanted to update my wireless capabilities to the latest 802.11 Draft N standard, so that I could take advantage of the speed boost when working wirelessly. However I had one problem the WRT150N will not run the Tomato Firmware. And I didn’t want to switch to DD-WRT for a couple of reasons, the most important being that I really like the Tomato user experience and it would be a pain to setup the router with all my custom configurations again. So I decided to try and have the best of both worlds and keep my WRT54G (old router running Tomato Firmware) as my gateway and turn the WRT150N (new router running DD-WRT) in to an access point on my network. ...