I wrote previously about wifi problems with my MacBook Pro on my home network, so I ended up getting a new 802.11n router (a D-Link DIR-655). Turns out the router ultimately wasn’t the problem (my MBP didn’t like WPA2 encryption), so my old Linksys WRT54g was still working.

With my old network, I had it set up so that my Airport Express was acting as a WDS repeater for my network & used its built-in Ethernet port to connect my Xbox 360 to the network (the Airport Express was connected to my home theater receiver so that I could stream iTunes to it).

The D-Link didn’t support WDS (my old Linksys WRT54g did only because I reflashed the firmware w/ Sveasoft’s Alchemy firmware), so Xbox 360 wasn’t connected to the network anymore. To get the Xbox back on, I converted the WRT54g to a wireless bridge, using the DD-WRT firmware. It was pretty straightforward (much easier than setting it up with WDS), so now I’m back to where I was before my whole network started acting all goofy. w00t.

Related posts:

  1. my MBP’s wireless is teh suck, part 2
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