Use a wireless router as a repeater for a laptop?

Jon Danniken · 2013-11-29T22:13:24+00:00

Hi all, I am wondering if it would be possible to bridge a wireless router with a wifi card in a laptop, so that the wireless router would essentially serve as an extended antenna for the wifi card. I know that you can bridge two routers to extend the range from the base router, but that's not what I'm trying to do. Instead, I want to bridge the extra wireless router with the laptop, so that the extra router is basically transparent, serving only as an extension of the laptop's wifi. Is such a configuration possible? I would be using something like DD-WRT firmware on an appropriate extra router. Thanks for your help with this. Jon

Nov 29, 2013 21 Replies

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Jon Danniken 12 years ago

Gotcha; the reason I was calling it a repeater is due to using the wireless VLan to connect the laptop to the "middle" router without a cable. I had seen this referred to as a repeater mode, although it is accomplished by using Client mode in DD-WRT.

Thanks!

Jon

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