This was a post by a member on a different forum regarding this sort of thing, take a look at DD-WRT site
After messing about with two of the crappy things, which cost over 20 quid each I finally came up with a much better solution to go wireless.
Virgin Media give crappy D-Link wireless routers away with their broadband, naturally a lot of people paying for really fast internet want a decent router, so they buy a new one and stick their crappy D-Link on eBay. In the last few days I've seen them selling for as cheap as ?7 buy it now, heres a quick link to one I just found which is selling for ?10 + P&P
D-LINK DIR-615 100 Mbps WIRELESS N ROUTER on eBay (end time 27-Jan-11 13:44:02 GMT)
Like many others I upgraded my wireless router last week and was about to stick my D-Link on ebay before I thought up the idea of trying to convert it to a wireless bridge. I downloaded some open source Firmware for the device called DD-WRT
www.dd-wrt.com | Unleash Your Router | Unleash Your Router and flashed the router, I then followed this guide Repeater Bridge - DD-WRT Wiki to set the router up to be it's own wireless bridge and wireless repeater, feeding off my main router's wireless.
Now I am the very happy owner of a wireless N bridge which feeds my VU+ Duo in the other room - not only that but I have 4 extra available ethernet ports now for my xbox and media PC. I've also been watching 1080p movies streamed from my NAS drive absolutely perfectly whereas is was all but impossible using the normal wireless bridges.
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