Part 1: Preparing for the Tutorial Things to Downloadįor this tutorial, I recomend having two computers available. Its pretty important that you don’t skip steps if you want your WRE54G to function properly.

Part 5 – Configuring the WRE54G to work as an extender.

Part 4 – Update DD-WRT to the latest version.

Part 2 – Upgrade to the latest Linksys firmware.

This tutorial is broken into six parts, for the sake of clarity. Hopefully this will allow more people to rescue their repeaters from the trash heap.

To date, no one has created a step by step tutorial for converting your WRE54G over to DD-WRT. So the WRE54Gs went into my closet, until recently when I discovered that the brave souls in the DD-WRT community had managed to squeeze their awesome firmware onto these little beasties.

I found that they dropped network connections many times a day, making them pretty much worthless. The second and more serious problem is that they just don’t work very well. Firstly, they only work with a few Linksys routers, so forget about using them with your Netgear or Buffalo router. I bought a few of them, anticipating that they could be useful for boosting larger networks. The WRE54G is an 802.11g wireless repeater that has been sold by Linksys for several years.

Dd wrt v24 source code