Use DIR 615 as a repeater

[MilanoChris]

I am on Virgin 50Mb. I have two of these routers and wireless in my place is pretty chronic (old Manor house so really thick walls). I want to extend the range of my network using my two routers, one connected to the internet, and the other connected wirelessly as a repeater.

From looking through the options, it appears to me that this cannot be done on the stock firmware and in order to extend my range I would have to use a Cat 5 cable between the two routers LAN ports, disable DHCP on the second, put it on a different channel and assign it a static IP address within the DHCP range of the internet connected router.

Is there a way, using perhaps another firmware, to achieve this without the use of an Ethernet cable between the two?

---------- Post added at 18:55 ---------- Previous post was at 18:35 ----------

Ah, sorry for not searching, I am just doing the DD-WRT upgrade on both routers now.

I'm hoping Router #1 should be set to AP and #2 set to repeater.

I'll give it a go and see what happens.

---------- Post added at 19:40 ---------- Previous post was at 18:55 ----------

Well I got it working, and tested fine, however, the two cannot talk to each other in pretty much the only spots that I can get them in.

May have to go back to Ethernet after all.

---------- Post added at 19:51 ---------- Previous post was at 19:40 ----------

Ignore that, found a chance spot, all working. I love talking to myself haha!

So all sorted ?

[MilanoChris]

Yes, only problem is that it's a little slow when connected to the repeater, and devices take a while to come back to the stronger signal, but I guess internet access, albeit a bit slow, beats no access.