How can I create a continuous hotspot w/ Multiple routers?

luckyedboy66

luckyedboy66

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We have several wifi routers around our house so we can have good coverage in any one location. we get great reception anywhere in the house, but its annoying to manually switch to the router with best signal. i know it's possible to create a continuous hotspot using multiple routers with the same SSID. does anybody know how to create such a network? having such a configuration allowes the computer to jump to whichever router produces greatest signal. a business set up a network like this at my former college, and i would like to mimic it.
 
luckyedboy66 said:
We have several wifi routers around our house so we can have good coverage in any one location. we get great reception anywhere in the house, but its annoying to manually switch to the router with best signal. i know it's possible to create a continuous hotspot using multiple routers with the same SSID. does anybody know how to create such a network? having such a configuration allowes the computer to jump to whichever router produces greatest signal. a business set up a network like this at my former college, and i would like to mimic it.
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Buy several routers that all support third party firmware from www.dd-wrt.com

Then set them up this way

Primary router:
IP- 192.168.1.1
DNS - Resolved by DHCP
DHCP Services - On
DHCP Range - 192.168.1.100~150
SSID - Your SSID
Channel - 6
NAT - enabled
SPI Firewall - enabled

Secondary router
IP - 192.168.1.2
DNS - 192.168.1.1
DCHP - off
SSID - your SSID
Channel - 8
NAT - disabled
SPI Firewall - Disabled
Mode - Bridge
WAN port - disabled (or in switch mode)

Tertiary router
IP - 192.168.1.3
DNS - 192.168.1.1
DCHP - off
SSID - your SSID
Channel - 10
NAT - disabled
SPI Firewall - Disabled
Mode - Bridge
WAN port - disabled (or in switch mode)

Now you will have to run CAT5 to each router to repeat, or enabled what is called Bridge mode + WDS to do it over wireless, but running cable is your best bet.

You may need to tweak the settings too here and there, but from my examples I am sure you can do the rest. They should repeat and extend your wireless signal, I have set this up for clients before in the past using that third party firmware.
 
tlarkin said:
Buy several routers that all support third party firmware from www.dd-wrt.com

Then set them up this way

Primary router:
IP- 192.168.1.1
DNS - Resolved by DHCP
DHCP Services - On
DHCP Range - 192.168.1.100~150
SSID - Your SSID
Channel - 6
NAT - enabled
SPI Firewall - enabled

Secondary router
IP - 192.168.1.2
DNS - 192.168.1.1
DCHP - off
SSID - your SSID
Channel - 8
NAT - disabled
SPI Firewall - Disabled
Mode - Bridge
WAN port - disabled (or in switch mode)

Tertiary router
IP - 192.168.1.3
DNS - 192.168.1.1
DCHP - off
SSID - your SSID
Channel - 10
NAT - disabled
SPI Firewall - Disabled
Mode - Bridge
WAN port - disabled (or in switch mode)

Now you will have to run CAT5 to each router to repeat, or enabled what is called Bridge mode + WDS to do it over wireless, but running cable is your best bet.

You may need to tweak the settings too here and there, but from my examples I am sure you can do the rest. They should repeat and extend your wireless signal, I have set this up for clients before in the past using that third party firmware.
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sweet! thanks, but i only have one router good enough (a WRT54G). i'd love to snag a couple WRT54GLs, but they arent cheap :(
 
luckyedboy66 said:
sweet! thanks, but i only have one router good enough (a WRT54G). i'd love to snag a couple WRT54GLs, but they arent cheap :(
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most cheap routers don't support the features I am talking about. I would try to hunt some down, I bought my WRT54GL from Newegg for like $40 2 years ago.
 
tlarkin said:
most cheap routers don't support the features I am talking about. I would try to hunt some down, I bought my WRT54GL from Newegg for like $40 2 years ago.
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i actually thought about flashing DD-WRT to my router, but i got burned out on the "project".
 
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