[Yasha]

Carputer

[Justintoxicated]

[anectine17]

I assume the battery is so you can take the router mobile. There certainly isn't any need for a battery with the SD card reader...it gets its 3 volt power from the router. I really don't see any need for a battery. I know some people use their routers for Wardriving, etc. I build a $4 12 volt cigarette lighter adapter for people that want to take their routers out in their cars. Where else would you use the router where you'd need a battery?? That's the only thing I'm missing.

[dicksons]

Oh, I dunno, maybe on the top of a mountain as a repeater using a solar charger so that the hillbillies down the next holler can have Internet...

anectine17 - You of all people should know that not everyone is just trying to use DD-WRT to get to a multimegabit commercial ISP drop in the next room of their urban abode...

[umisguy]

well, with my eventual idea in motion... by the time its all together, I'll have a portable - powered router (barely larger than the original router's size from specs) which will serve as a wifi AP connector (tapping one wireless AP and providing cat 5 ethernet ports the connection from the wireless connection), as well as a backpack-wardriving device (for those who only use busses and such, bikes and just human bipedal motion), and a laptopless torrent client with everything needed self contained ( SD mod to provide drivers and application space, and either a USB adaptor [if there is a way to mod a usb host controller into the router] or ethernet based laptop hard drive enclosure for the 20-160GB of extra storage space for torrent downloads and whatever else I'd feel like doing with it on the router... plus, if I were to add in the samba server into the router's list of features, it will permit a password protected ethernet based network storage (NAS) without interfering with other functions of the router, so far as I know ...) more or less backpack or smaller sized portable wardriving / wifi leaching / network extending / NAS providing / torrent downloading device...

[anectine17]

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[anectine17]

[umisguy]

I'm not talking about connecting into networks which obviously don't want me in them (encrypted or non broadcasted) but.. for those which are open, unencrypted and broadcasting their SSIDs out to the public... its not like people like that (most of the time anyway) care enough to bother worrying about someone extra on their connection, I don't want to encroach on other people's personal or private space, but if its an open network, ... in america and a lot of other countries, theres an open door policy, you're allowed to enter the house if the door is open so long as you make your presence known and mean no ill will, at least until the owner asks or tells you to leave, but my point isn't that, its just that if a network is "sharing" their internet connection to anyone with the hardware and proximity to connect to it... why not use it for a lil while, its not like a person is going to take all the bandwidth in one interface... right? I mean, many free access points exist in my area and some are companies and others are just houses, but many are not encrypted, I don't even bother with the ones that are encrypted or don't broadcast SSID. I'm a person who can't drive, and don't have many friends who can drive, and I'm currently sans a laptop until I can afford the extra parts to repair the damage, but anyway, since I have spare time, and I took over a no longer being used linksys WRT54G v3.0 Router and have done some hardware and firmware modifications to it... why not expand upon the modifications as far as possible?

[JN]

I am interested in the ability to run from a battery (or from a USB cable taking power from a laptop) for travel situations. The Buffalo router is small enough to be a good travel router. Sometimes the reception is uneven in a hotel room and the location of best signal might not be by a power plug. Anyway, has anyone managed to run a Buffalo (WHR-G54S or WHR-G54HP) router from a battery?

[JN]

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[parafine]

[JN]

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[JN]

What would really be a cool battery mod would be if one could run it off a battery no larger than a laptop computer battery.

[JN]

Or, would there be any way to run a Buffalo off a USB port on a laptop with appropriate cable?

[Blackraven]

I have asked something similar in this post.
Now I'm actually using my second wrt as a client for my laptop, powered over usb, so that it shuts off when I power down my laptop. [I am experiencing some connectivity issues with my intel card]