[Discuss] Wireless devices, 2 Wireless Routers, local network. DD-WRT

John Hall johnhall2.0 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 11:47:26 EDT 2014


Hum, I'd search for 'wifi at camp xxx reviews', and call the camp and talk
to them about what has worked for other campers. You might find someone
with a longterm campsite to hook up with.
I would as a plan b bring a long usb teather cable for my cell  and share
the connection with my laptop via wifi or route through it to a router.
Hum and a ziplock for the phone ;)
And have a plan c...not network games... some movies on disc/hd...a book.
All those wireless hops may add alot of latency.
An ipad with cellular prepaid (as it comes out of the apple store) can all
be used as a bubble and you only need to pay for that month. there is no
contract.  This verizon jetpack is $80, and the plan is pre-paid.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/prepaid/prepaid-jetpack/

 http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Ipkg
The packages for dd-wrt have pretty much all the net stuff youd use on a
linux box.
I have one of these yagi  outdoor pole mountable 25" yagi from amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008Z4DNFC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I am just getting a new router set up and for noe just point the yagi to
the area outside where I need it at the time.

If you get a good line of site to your camp with the N router as bridge you
might just connect your devices to it directly and leave the G out of the
picture...I think it might degrade things if your devices do N.
I haven't, but I'm interested in your results.  I also go camping and have
had to resort to getting a mifi which has a 10GB limit and I often go over.
 if there was a way to do what you're doing and limit my mifi use, I'd be
interested.  I'd also be interested to see if someone could accomplish with
a Raspberry Pi.

Matt


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:38 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> Here's the scenario:
>
> I like to go camping and often times they provide wireless access, but the
> camp site is often pretty far away from the wireless access point. I have
> a long distance wireless-G router with a high gain antenna. I have a
> second wireless-N router. Both routers are running DD-WRT.
>
>
> I should be able to connect to the camp ground's wireless with the high
> gain antenna using the Wireless-G router with a DHCP assign IP address. I
> should then be able to NAT to my own local subnet and be able to connect
> the Wireless-N to my local subnet and provide access to phones, tablets,
> and laptops.
>
> If these were standard linux boxes, this would be fairly easy, but the
> standard tools don't seem available on DD-WRT's shell.
>
> Has anyone done this? Got a good link? (I have googled, but the examples
> I've found aren't quite right or don't really work.)
>
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