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Asus WL500G Deluxe Router



On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:44:06AM -0400, James Kramer wrote:
> Is is possible to use an Asus wl-500 G Deluxe router to connect to my
> neighbors wireless router, similar to the way my notebook connects to
> it?  I want to connect my main computer to my neighbors wireless
> network, however I do not have a wireless eithernet card.

As Daniel said, you need to use the wifi in bridge mode.  If the default
Asus firmware doesn't support briding, then you can flash that model
with the OpenWRT firmware, which definitely supports that feature.

-b

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