I did something similar when I wanted to ensure full reception in the backyard, which was at the opposite end of the house and downstairs from the router. In this scenario, reception in the backyard was very weak, and control of the deck zone sometimes problematic. When I placed the wireless router downstairs close to the yard, it solved the problem for the SB zones, but wifi reception for other devices became poor upstairs.
What I did was use a homeplug to connect two wireless pre-N routers (Linksys WRT300N and D-Link DIR655). The Linksys is upstairs with the broadband modem with DHCP on, the WAN (broadband) connected, and wireless radio on with SSID "Example". The D-Link is downstairs connected by the homeplug (Netgear HDX101) to a standard network port, DHCP off, no WAN connection, and wireless radio on also with SSID "Example". Both routers have WPA2 security enabled, each with identical settings. When I started this, I expected that there would be some reason that two routers could not share the same SSID on the same network and allow a device to "roam". However, I have found that this solution works for me such that I can move around the house and yard and have a consistently strong wifi signal on the same network. I have since upgraded the Linksys to the DD-WRT open source firmware which has built-in bridging functionality, but have not made use of it. -- ds2021 All your bass are belong to us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ds2021's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10078 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51117 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
