NTP Client (Network Time Protocol) is a software client that allows your router to sync it's time from a time server. If you haven't already set this up for your router, you might want to look into setting it up -especially if you're "Access Restrictons" and the "Traffic by Month" are enabled. If your router isn't synchronized with the right time, you may encounter some major problems with some services that the router has that uses dates and time to determine it's output.

Setting up the NTP client is easy if you know your time servers. To configure the NTP client, navigate to your web GUI (http://192.168.1.1) > Setup > Basic Settings and scroll down to the NTP Time Section.

1. Select "Enable" for NTP Client.
2. Choose your Time Zone for your location.
3. Set the Summer Time (DST) accordingly (See Time Zone settings below)
4. Enter the domain name or IP address of the Time Server.

Setting up your home web server is a fairly easy thing to do and deals mainly with port forwarding. However, there are a few settings to be configured and programs to install before your web server can be up and running.

If you're running Windows Server Enterprise 2008, there's a few settings you need to make on the operating system. But first thing first, you want to register your IP address with a domain name. There's plenty of free DNS services offered for this, but one of the most popular and widely used is DynDNS.org.

To do this visit DynDNS.org, create an account, and create a new host. Make your hostname and choose a domain name for it. Check the "Wildcard" box and choose "Host with IP address" for Service Type. For your "IP Address" click the link right under it that says "Your current IP address is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" to automatically link your IP address to this hostname. Once you've completed those steps, click Activate to .. activate your hostname. The next step is to download the DynDNS Updater. This program automatically updates your hostname with your connected IP address, because every so often your IP address changes, and will require a manual IP update without the DynDNS Updater. You can download the program here: DynDNS Client Updater.

You can optimize your wireless connection for both a single router in a network and/or multiple routers setup as a wireless client bridge. This is fairly easy todo. With just a few minor changes to your wireless settings, you'll be able to optimize your connection speed.

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After

If you're using dd-wrt sp1, do not attempt this tutorial. You will not be able to configure a wireless client bridge in this version, so be sure to check your device's dd-wrt firmware version and update accordingly before starting this tutorial.

Assuming that your primary router is already flashed with dd-wrt v24 sp2 and setup with a home network with a LAN IP address of 192.168.1.1. If your primary router has a different LAN IP address, just adjust the IP accordingly to match that of yours and everything should work fine. There is no need to configure your primary router in this tutorial (although, in some cases - the wireless security needs to be changed to WPA2 Personal on both the primary and secondary router for it to work.)

Once you're done flashing your secondary router to sp2, turn your wifi connection off. Turning off your wifi connection while processing the config of your secondary router will prevent any errors or sudden disconnection that will result in a bricked router or even something worse.

Connect to the web GUI via a web browser (http://192.168.1.1) and enter your desired username and password. Navigate first to Wireless > Wireless Security. Change your wireless security to match that of your primary's router.

Windows Remote Desktop

Setting up Remote Desktop for your windows operating systems is fairly easy. Once you've set up your network and have your PC's connected to it, you'll automatically be able to connect to them remotely after changing the windows remote desktop connection option. However, you'll notice that when you're out at Wal-Mart or waiting at the dentist office, you wont be able to remotely connect to your windows operating system that has all your work documents on it. This is because your PC is only recognized as a trusted device when you're connected to your wireless network.

The problem here is to get your network to recognize your device, be it a mobile phone or desktop PC as a trusted device and grant access to the network you wish to connect to.

First off, you want to register your ip to a domain with DynDNS or any other domain name service so you won't have to memorize your ip address when trying to connect to your remote device. This is optional and doesn't have to be done, but is added for your connivence. This is also useful to do because every now and then, your ip address may decide it wants to change up numbers, thus becoming a whole new ip address you'll have to re-memorize. But with the DynDNS updater, it automatically updates the domain name with the new ip address for you, and U.E.N.O. it..

If you want to attach a USB storage device to your network's router running the DD-WRT v2 sp24, you should have the following materials ready and set up at hand.

1. External USB storage device.
2. Router (flashed with DD-WRT v2 sp24)

wireless client bridge

Here is a script that is useful if you have a wireless client bridge in your network. A wireless client is good to have within your network because it adds scalability and efficiency to your network. Nevertheless, in order for it to be reliable in the network; it has to be connected to your main router at all times. If you are experiencing a disconnection between your main router and your wireless client bridge often; you may want to add this script to your main router.

If you are running dd-wrt v24 presp2, you can add this script to your start up to ensure connection between your main router and your wireless client bridge.

In the main router's web GUI, navigate to Administration > Commands and copy and paste the following script in open text box. After you have edited the script to your wireless bridge's ip address click Save Startup