WNDR3800 and 2nd wireless router

[matroska]

Hello,

I currently have 1.51 on my WNDR3800. This is located in the house but what I'm wanting to do is extend my wireless coverage to the garage outside.

So, as a newbie to doing anything like this, is it possible and what way should I go. So I basically just want the WNDR3800 to do what it's doing now but the device I install in the shed act like a range extender type device.

Is this possible? If so, do I need to buy the same device or can I look at a TP-Link for example and will it need to be flashed with Gargoyle?

I did look at the Netgear plug in wireless extenders but not sure if these things will work alongside my Netgear router seeing that it has customer firmware installed.

Any advice/feedback would be appreciated as far as the easiest solution for extending my wireless signal.

A million thankyous in advance...

Matroska


nb. This is the device I was looking at : http://netgear.com.au/home/products/wir ... P.aspx#two but I have found that the WPS (push n connect) doesn't seem to want to operate on my WNDR3800 since I put the Gargoyle FW on it, so not sure why??

[BashfulBladder]

You don't need the same vendor, or the same firmware.

The main router hands out DHCP leases. The 2nd router has DHCP off. It connects LAN port to main router's LAN port. The 2nd router uses the same SSID & password as the main router - but a different channel 1 & 11 for example. Then you *should* be able to roam at will. I do, but my routers are both TP-Link & running Gargoyle.

As for wireless extenders, I don't know for sure, but they would probably work similarly - same SSID & password; different channel & you should be fine.

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>the WPS (push n connect) doesn't seem to want to operate on my WNDR3800 since I put the Gargoyle FW on it.

See this page:

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=37212

basically, the button needs to be connected to run a script.