The wireless connection in my dorm is spotty at best, so I wanted to plug in my own router to boost the signal. However, the school network needs to configure all the routers on the network so that the DHCP settings all play nice. I brought my router down to the admin, who promptly told me that the built-in firmware wouldn't allow the necessary settings. He then offered to hack it so that we could configure it however we wanted.

h4x0r3d. The happy way.