Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 11:30:06 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:28:34 +0100 From: Mcwm User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 Hamster-Pg/1.25.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.networking.connectivity,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,alt.comp.networking.routers Subject: Re: Using an old Linksys WRT54GL to extend wireless network? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-bssrKjCtzX8pAnBs9IBKTSUL7WxR2/1CiikCXZbakiAIhdRZhsnVMkyP2x4yja1DZakzmnzrRsKfLDr!WaiLJno6b1p2uYNnZhvHJxASVrwZnIEF5qD+PRc1OGLcj17gsW3Jb/uTVII= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1921 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking:114 09-03-2015 kl. 00:08 Ant wrote: > Hello. > > Is it possible to use an inactive (in storage) over five/5 years old > Linksys WRT54GL Wireless-G 54Mbps router v1.1 to connect to an active > Netgear R6300 router in terms of wireless network? I am trying to see if > I could use it to expand the wireless network, no network cables, since > some far away areas have weak spots. Both of these routers currently > have their (lat/new)est) stock firmwares. If it is possible, then how do > I do that? I hope it's easy. > > Thank you in advance. :) Put DD-Wrt on it. Then you can http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linksys_WRT54GL Kindly Mcwm