Setting up a Wi-FI Repeater at home

As I am working more from home these days, my wife and I went to Ikea and bought some new furniture for a home office. We put in into the play room upstairs. One small problem: the wireless network upstairs  in the playroom was weak.

I went online and looked at solutions. Two jumped out. The first was a product from Linksys that acted as a repeater – that was its entire job. I bought one from Ebay that was substantially off from Retail. read a bunch online on how to set this up. Got it set up after an hour or so and put in the upstairs hallway.  Never could get it to work though with the wireless solutions. Back to Ebay.

The second solution was take a Linksys wireless router (Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Router) and make it a repeater. Instructions were provided online on how to install DD-WRT micro on the the version 5 and then I had instructions on how to make it a repeater. Bought one of Ebay, installed dd-wrt as instructed, set up the repeater and viole, we now have great wireless coverage in the play room.

One more vote for DD-WRT