Greetings all!

New to the forum so excuse me if not writing to the right part of the forum.

I have a question you might be able to help with:

Have a Linksys WRT54-GL 1.1 router and trying to increase range/transmiting power of wireless. With original firmware that's not possible, so I already tried multiple opensource fw-s like Tomato, DD-WRT,... but they all made my router unstable. So the other day I installed this one:

Firmware Version WHITE RUSSIAN (0.9)
Kernel Version Linux version 2.4.30 (nbd@ds10) (gcc version 3.4.4 (OpenWrt-1.0)) #1 Sat Feb 3 13:16:08 CET 2007

It works well for now, though didn't find an option to increase transmiting power of wireless modul... So, this is the question: am I missing something? I updated a list of packages in the "System/Installed software" menu, but there are so many different packages, I don't know which ones to choose to gain this feature?

Help required

Thank you,

Luka

Try installing the 'X-WRT' package from www.x-wrt.org its basically a web interface for white russian, theres an option under the network tab called 'Advanced Wireless' I think it has the options your looking for.

Hey!

That solved my problem for a while. It actually has a great number of additional setttings that might prove worthy.

Thank you for your reply,

Luka

Generally increasing the power is pointless as all the clients would need increased power too.
If you use Ch1, Ch6 and Ch11  alternately on airpoints on same network, with same SSID, and Key, then you can move around the building using actually lower power.

Less chance of interference or a long range hacker