I am in love with technology. I buy gadgets from time to time, half the time because I am so in love with the sheer engineering beauty of them.
I have had more wireless routers than I care to remember, and as more gadgets become wifi enabled (bt internet radio, eee PC, laptops galore, Playstation 3), the more I rely on them. I enthusiastically upgraded from 802.11b to 802.11g. I went to a MIMO netgear router. I carefully read reviews of various Pre-N routers, almost plumping for a D-link DIR-655, which seems to be highly regarded.
Unfortunately I just know that all of these will not address the fundamental problems of wireless routers in my house (an fairly large Victorian monstrosity with thick walls, some of them rendered with wretched expanded metal lathing. I found that the Netgear MIMO router had worse performance than my old Linksys WRT54G 802.11g router. Although new routers have much higher throughputs this doesn't really help me as my problem is with range.
Anyway, about a year ago I set up a router to function as an access point. Something went wrong with how this was configured and I ended up putting it aside and forgetting how I'd configured it. In such a situation I normally find that a quick search on google produces just what I want. The problem for me in this situation was that I'd completely forgotten that I was looking to simulate the behaviour of an access point.
Anyway, he most useful page I found was this one. I didn't really feel that it was detailed enough, but it seems to have worked for me. I did not disable RIP processing.
If you want to know exactly how I did this, drop me a line at steve.hemingway@gmail.com and I'll write the details as an extension to this entry. If you know of an existing page that covers this in more detail, or more specificially to a current router models, then please comment or email!
