Dec 20, 2015 · You can purchase a wireless router at local thrift stores for under $10. When shopping for routers, look for Wireless N routers and try to find a router that supports tomato or DD-WRT. A mixed network. I decided to put tomato on my main router and DD-WRT on my second router. First Router Setup
Again: No. The WRT is not a repeater. I does not act as a repeater. You can't use it as repeater. You must run a ethernet cable between the WRT and your main router. You may only be able to do this with 3rd party firmware like dd-wrt or tomato. But then you should better ask in a forum on that firmware. Netgear WNR2000v3 how to dd-wrt and setup Repeater function Mar 11, 2015 OpenWrt Project: Wi-Fi extender / repeater / bridge
I set up my WRT310N v2 with DD-WRT to be a Wireless Repeater using the below guide except I created a virtual wireless interface which for some reason wasnt in that guide so I could connect wireless devices (the point of it all). https://www.dd-
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