How to connect to that far away Wireless signal – ddwrt over a wrt54g v5

So, a lot of the ports I need at a client are getting shutdown to the point, where I cannot work at that location to get my work done. I have another client not too far that I can SOMETIMES pick up on their wireless signal. Hmmm, what if I had a directional antenna and can boost the signal strength and use their wifi? Well, I made a phone call tomy favourite Computer hardware shop – the Computer Rack here in Calgary to see if they gad an antenna and any ideas. He mentioned that I might consider an ASUS RT-N12 ($45 CDN) and put dd-wrt on it. Yes … I thought – that will do it … then, when I got home and got thinking about it, I had a old router that I put coova network on and … oh look another one – with nothing on it – a wrt54g v5. Lets try! Yes – I got it to work … I will have to make it up to the Computer Rack though – it was his idea (I still need that antenna)

Client Mode? No. Bridged Mode?? Yes as it takes the same IP address as main DCHP server – I think this is what I want… yes! It worked.

• Setup ddwrt onto the router – I used a VM on my mac – it worked
• Setup the bridged settings – precisely!
  • one addition to the above is to ensure that the DNS is set to the 2ndary bridged router. I assume it will work with the primary – but it had to be set