- SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE HOW TO
- SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE INSTALL
- SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE UPGRADE
- SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE DOWNLOAD
The wait some time and then the "main router" - connected to the internet) I found, that if I only restart one router - the bridge wouldn't work after the restart until I use the right order:įirst restart the client - livingroom router (although both should be equal) Tip on restarting the routers (and their bridge): This way 1GB file transfer only takes ~3mins! Can take some time - but if you have a working bridge - it should come up here and also show's you your signal-quality - mine is 24% through 3 walls - not perfect - but still gives me around 5-6 mb/s (megabytes per sec - or 40-48MBits) that's far more I ever got with other wireless systems and comes close to 100 MBit Lan cable speed. You can see on the Status / Wireless section under the point "WDS Nodes" if there is the other router. If you did everything right, you can now unplug the LAN cable from the "livingroom" router (.251) and try to ping it - if it works - congrats - your wireless bridge works! (coming here took me nearly a day - if you were faster - your either more intelligent, luckier or my guide helped :-) Only difference is in the WL1-WDS section where you have to specify the MAC address of the other router. 251 - router in livingroom:īasicly just setup both routers the same way. The same has to be done on the other router with this routers MAC (found right here). This tells the router here which other router can connect as a bridge to him. LAN and the MAC address of your other routers WL1 mac address (can be found on his configpage at the same spot as you are here (Wireless / WL1-WDS) SSID Broadcast: disable (could be enabled at first tests) Wireless Mode: AP (important: both routers have to be AP - not client bridge as I thought!)Ĭhannel: 120 (choose what you like - but the same on both routers!) Router1 - Main accesspoint - connected to homelan and internet:
SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE HOW TO
I'll just copy my config here and hope you know how to adapt these settings to match your homelans IP address range.
SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE INSTALL
On DD-WRT they write a good FAQ how to install the firmware.
SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE UPGRADE
To install it, you just follow the normal firmware upgrade procedures (not sure now where this is at the standard routerpages - as I have only the modified software on both routers here). I'm not really sure if this was neccessary - but I did like I was told. then replug the power and hold the reset for another 30 secs unplug the power cable while still pressing the reset swith - wait another 30secs while running, press and hold the reset swith on the router for 30sec
SETTING UP MY DD WRT V24 AS A CLIENT BRIDGE DOWNLOAD
So download the very good open source alternative: DD-WRT On the standard firmware as they come, they don't have the option to be wireless bridges, or WDS repeaters or however you may call it. Another great aspect of the e4200: the wireless signal is really strong - giving you wifi nearly everywhere in a big house! So you can bridge two of them together and have both acting as access-points - without loosing much performance. The good on this routers: they can do both - 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz at the same time. So I decided to buy 2 of the currently best routers and get them connected at the currently highest available wireless speed - 450mbit on 5Ghz (802.11N). This is slow - no matter what they write on their ads. I had this before - but only using powerlan (network over the powerline). My situation: I wanted to connect my livingroom (Satellite HDD Receiver, Wii, PC) to my homelan. Use 2 Linksys e4200 routers to "bridge" some distance in your house where cables cant go or would be too much work.