Great Uses for Old Wireless Routers

[Saura]

If you have old routres 802.11g and you want to through that routers and buy new one. This tip will prefect for you. Some of these thoughts consist of touching the old router around to serve a different purpose. Though, most make use of the efficient characteristic that substitute firmware projects offer for the well-liked WRT series from Linksys and many other vendors and product. Yet, all the ideas can be fairly cooperative and save you a lot of money. Although wireless routers are planned to connect to and deal out an Internet connection, they can be use just for their Wi-Fi capabilities. In other words, you can use it as an access point in its place of a wireless router. If you have a small network with simply a single wireless router, this can just about double your wireless coverage and it's basically free.Like a usual AP, you want to put the temporary AP in a thoughtful spot to give the best coverage. You want the wireless coverage boundaries of each router to partly cover some. Then you have to sprint an Ethernet cable from the network's router or switch all the way to the makeshift AP. The trick to twist the router into an AP is to turn off the router's DHCP server and to fastener the Ethernet cable to one of the switch ports in its place of the old router's WAN port. You can also reduce 802.11n routers from supporting 802.11g, it's best to permit only 802.11n connections on the router. If 802.11g clients connect, they can slow down the newer clients. Though, you can put up the old router once more, just to hold up the old clients.

[XDRoX]

I will add some more tips to use old routers. You can replace the firmware and this lets you set up the router for secure remote connections, so you can right of entry files and services or secure your Wi-Fi hotspot connections. If you have several locations, you can firmly connect them via the Internet. If you want to use the venture mode of WPA or WPA2, but don't have a RADIUS server to do the verification, you may be intelligent to convert your old router into one. If you have a supported router, you can blaze it with the TinyPEAP firmware replacement. Check that and reply.

[ChrisUlrich]

If you have PC or other network devices that require to be linked to the network but only contain an Ethernet port and aren't close enough to the router, you could change your old router into a wireless bridge. In bridge mode, the old router would converse with the new router via the airwaves. Any Pc linked to the old router's Ethernet ports would be just similar to they were wirelessly associated with the new router themselves. Like with the repeater mode, to obtain this bridging ability, you'll have to use a firmware replacement that is DD-WRT, Tomato, or Sveasoft. Best of luck.