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Offline Kulverstukas

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Wired to Wireless television-set
« on: September 25, 2015, 09:01:52 pm »
This is some thing I did. I have a Samsung TV which supports wifi and ethernet cable by itself, it's a smart-tv, with all kinds of internet features and whatnot.
A long time ago I was hit with a power surge, few things burned up (thank god for varistors!), including tv's wifi device... or it could of been a general fault why it broke... idk. but wifi didn't work anymore. However since I didn't use the tv's internet features, I was ok without that capability.
Few months ago I decided to upgrade my router from asus wl-520gc to a newer one TP-LINK TL-WR941ND.
Old Asus was perfectly operational, just slow and I didn't want to throw it out. Then I figured I can try to flash it to dd-wrt software, but I was afraid to do so when I had it working, because it looked a bit fishy installing a modified version of dd-wrt and some comments say they bricked the router. Now that it didn't matter I decided to try it.
Instructions I followed were here, and short after I successfully on first try flashed that old Asus router to dd-wrt firmware. After doing so I quickly configured the router to act as a wireless client and connected that to my TV. Router worked flawlessly and my TV has internet again!

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Re: Wired to Wireless television-set
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2015, 11:36:23 pm »
Nice.

I have a Linksys wrt ac1900 that I bought about 6 months ago. I never tried to put the dd-wrt firmware on it because I also read a bunch of comments about people bricking them.

I am tempted to try now :p
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