{"id":957,"date":"2011-11-10T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/?p=957"},"modified":"2019-08-13T00:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T07:33:40","slug":"dd-wrt-and-linksys-wrt54g-client-mode-for-wan-over-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/dd-wrt-and-linksys-wrt54g-client-mode-for-wan-over-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"DD-WRT and Linksys WRT54G &#8211; Client Mode for Wan over Wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_20111110_180259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-958\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" title=\"Linksys WRT54G\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_20111110_180259-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_20111110_180259-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_20111110_180259-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Challenge:<\/strong> How can you create a wired LAN with an independent network when:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><p>&gt; There is no available CAT5 cable leading to a modem or router<br \/>\n&gt; The only internet connection nearby is on an established router that you can&#8217;t change settings on<br \/>\n&gt; Wireless access is available in the building<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One option is a cradelpoint 4G router, using a Verizon 4G modem to setup internet access for multiple computers. However, in this case, we need a solution that is not limited by the amount of data you can download before overages set in. We settled on using a spare Linksys WRT54G router. When flashing this to DD-WRT, it&#8217;s possible to set the WAN on the wireless router to client mode and connect to an existing Wi-Fi network. We could then create a LAN on the device and plug-in computers to create our own network that would use the connected Wi-Fi network signal to pull internet!<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this article &#8220;<a title=\"Building a Wireless Bridge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wi-fiplanet.com\/tutorials\/article.php\/3639271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building a Wireless Bridge<\/a>&#8221; that is helpful for this type of configuration. How can our Phoenix computer repair office help you solve your office networking challenges?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: small;\" href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\/ref\/?link=http:\/\/techclub.mypctechs.com\/?p=957&amp;title=Client mode wan over Wi-Fi&amp;body=Using DD-WRT to create a Wi-Fi connection WAN\"> &gt;&gt; Did you like this article? Ping it!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Challenge: How can you create a wired LAN with an independent network when: &gt; There is no available CAT5 cable leading to a modem or router &gt; The only internet connection nearby is on an established router that you can&#8217;t change settings on &gt; Wireless access is available in the building One option is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[838,875,874,882,883,138,97,851,95,86,878,873,879,876,174,840,554,850,881,877,880],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events","tag-4g","tag-cable","tag-cat5","tag-client-mode","tag-client-router","tag-computers","tag-connection","tag-cradlepoint","tag-data","tag-internet","tag-internet-access","tag-lan","tag-linksys","tag-modem","tag-network","tag-router","tag-settings","tag-verizon","tag-wan","tag-wireless","tag-wrt54g"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}