5/2 weekly weblog

This week I started trying to move the weather station to its permanent location. My dad and I mounted the station on a long PVC pole and engineered a mounting bracket that we screwed into the top of the carport where I want to mount the weather station. I have attached pictures of the mounting brackets. Unfortunately, the range of the receiver that talks to the weather station is not large enough to make it to the carport. To fix this issue, we want to move the receiver to another part of our house so that there is only one concrete wall between the receiver and the weather station rather than three. The receiver has to be plugged into an ethernet port, and the only ethernet ports we have are too far away from the weather station. In order to move the receiver, we have to use a repeater so that there are ethernet ports to plug the receiver into. And in order to use the spare router we have as a repeater, we need an unsecured 2.4G wireless signal from a router that can be put in WDS bridge mode. The router we have is also not supported by dd-wrt. I am not too experienced in networking so there may be some user error, but I have been researching this and trying this all week with no success. Over the weekend I will pick up a router that Dr. Bill flashed with dd-wrt and hopefully I will be able to get that working as a repeater with his help.