Thread: Tweak and Extend Your Wireless Network

Extend your router's signal, throttle your band width, review usage charts,
and perform other useful tricks with an open-source router-firmware upgrade. The free DD-WRT and Tomato firm ware offer advanced features for managing your wireless network, including bandwidth monitors, quality-of-service graphs, and router overclocking to extend the signal.



Want to make your Wi-Fi router's signal reach the attic and the basement, the low-tech way? Some people say that they've achieved gains by fashioning a foil "windsurfer" parabola and attaching it to the router antenna.