[ale] wireless card

[James Sumners]

After my last move, I ordered a Linksys WRT54G-L router to replace a
Netgear routher. I loaded the Tomato firmware
(http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) on it. Before I made the switch, I
used the new router as a wireless bridge for a while. It worked quite
well.

In other words, the Tomato firmware will do the same thing. I mention
it because I like the Tomato firmware. It's easy to use. Setting up my
bandwidth restrictions was very simple. Which was my original reason
for choosing Tomato over OpenWRT; I didn't see any QoS support in
OpenWRT.

On 9/26/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> An alternative is to get a second wireless/wired router, set it up by
> the computers, and link it to the first through WDS. Anything plugged in
> to the wired ports on that router then has access to the internet.
>
> This has several advantages: You only need to buy one piece of new
> hardware instead of a card for each computer. Traffic between the
> computers is fast because it uses the wired connection. You've extended
> the range of your wireless network.
>
> This is easy to do if your wireless hardware supports OpenWRT.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware
>
> -Brian


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