tl;dr Can this router ( v7 ) be flashed?
I got this situation. My DSL modem is hooked up to a Time Capsule in my room (not mine, my friend's). Across the kitchen, I got another roomate who needs internet access, but for some reason reception in his room was really lousy when the Time Capsule was in wireless-g mode, and completely absent when we switched to wireless-n mode. When he moves his laptop into the kitchen, reception is just fine. The only culprit we can think of, is that a brick wall borders his room on the side the router is closest to. He goes from zero bars to full bars by merely crossing the threshold of his doorway (where the brick wall stops).
Question:
I have a spare router, and I'm thinking I might be able to use it as a repeater. A little bit of sniffing around got me this link. This certainly looks doable, but when I check the router's supported it says the Netgear WGR614v8 is supported. My router is the WGR614v7.
Still possible? Or will proceeding with this plan inevitably brick my router?
Yes, I realize how ironic this post is given my handle.
