I found that our PS3’s streaming was pretty bad using it’s internal radio, so I setup a wireless bridge using two LinkSys WRT54G’s. One was a version 7 (non-hackable), and the other a version 4 (hackable). I loaded HyperWRT onto the V4 in order to activate the ‘wireless ethernet bridge’ mode.
After PS3 is wired directly into the V4 box, and establishing a wireless bridge between the routers… streaming has improved considerably. Here is view of things today:
Internet -wired-> *WRT54G v7* -wireless->*WRT54G v4* -wired-> PS3
I put the improvement down to the router’s having proper external antenna’s and prehaps more powerful radios. Here are the settings and firmware versions I used:
Main router
Firmware version: 7.00.6
Internet connection: Auto
LAN IP: 192.168.1.1
Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP server: Enabled
SSID: whateveryoulike
SSID broadcast: enable
Security: WPA Personal
WPA Alogrithm: AES
WPA Shared Key: whateveryoulike
Bridge router
Firmware version: 4.30.1, HyperWRT 2.1b1 +tofu13c
Internet connection: Disabled
LAN IP: 192.168.1.2
LAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1
LAN Mask: 255.255.255.0
DHCP server: disabled
Wirless mode: Wireless Ethernet Bridge
SSID: same as main WLAN network
SSID broadcast: enable
Security: WPA Personal
WPA Alogrithm: AES
WPA Shared Key: same as main WLAN network
Darran Boyd 