[TriLUG] WRT54GL wireless bridge

Reginald Reed reginald.reed at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 11:21:59 EDT 2006


Somewhat off topic here - I just installed Netgear (*shhhhh* don't
tell my boss!) 85 Mbps powerline networking gear to connect a Slingbox
and Series 2 Tivo to my network this weekend.  Its very fast and
worked without a hitch.  I used a single port in my office with the
other network gear and the model with a 4 port switch at the
Tivo/Slingbox.  I've got another 4 port switch model that I'll use for
whatever in the future.  I have Cat5e wiring in my house, but not
enough ports :(  This is a clean way to bridge your network and get
decently high bandwidth.

On 10/17/06, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice!  I just placed my order last night.
>
> On 10/17/06, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> > Greg,
> >
> > Since you asked, I've successfully flashed my wrt54gl v1.1 purchased
> > from Amazon with no problems at all. I used openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin
> > from White Russian RC5.
> >
> > FWIW, I followed a howto at
> > http://wiki.openwrt.org/WirelessBridgeWithWPAHowto to get a working
> > bridge using WPA2-PSK, with a bit of fiddling.
> >
> > Owen
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:23:18AM -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> > > Let me know how flashing them with OpenWRT goes.  All my current OpenWRT
> > > boxes are ver. 3 boxes.  I have to order about six more GLs for upcoming
> > > projects.
> > >
> > > Greg
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