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WRT54Gs eh... gonna have to order a couple I guess. As for the antenna's I want something a little more reliable in the long term then pringles cans. I'd also like something a little less visible... some sort of flat antenna would be preferable for the work side of the connection.


Get the WET54G instead, they are smaller and come set up for what you want to do. The "docs" that come with the wrt54g suck. The only thing I didn't like about the wet was it knows only wep, no wpa.

Not less visible, I kinda bought it 'cos it eye catching, but:

This antenna is what I used. I'm hitting sites more than 2km away with 80% signal, and not stuff in sight. It looks cool too. It comes with a female N connector, but you can get any adapter you need from here.

I have a similar setup. My office is down the street from my house, so I have house priced DSL and wireless to the office. I have a WRT45G at each end wired to two WET54G connected to the antennas. The WETs need to be next to the antennas, so I have old irrigation controller boxes with the WETs inside. I have linksys power over ethernet adapers in the boxes too, to feed the WETs.

This works really well, except that I "upgraded" the home WRT with the Satori os. The original Linksys os never crashes, but the Satori does about every two weeks.

The other irritating thing is that, evidently, you can slave one WRT to another if they are wired together, but the "docs" suck and there's no clue as to how to get this to actually work. Linksys has no idea either. So, my office WET is connected to one of the hub ports of the WRT rather than the LAN port. Grrrr....

You might be able to get away with a minimal antenna at one end. When I first set this up, I had the office WRT on the floor, behind two walls an a concrete fence, and I was still hitting with 100% with the house yagi. I think I could have probably not used the WETs and just used two yagis on the home WRT (you would need two yagis because of the diversity feature of the transmitter, you don't know which of the antennas it's going to use. US Robotics stuff you can force it to use one antenna only).

Good luck!