On Jan 7, 2015 9:43 PM, "Little Bear" <littlebear@xxw.ca> wrote:
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Sorry, wasn't thinking when I typed it. Did you try
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-extend-your-wi-fi-network-with-an-old-router-91...
So 2nd router as as wireless repeater, the channel needs to be different or else they would fight with each other. The SSID shouldn't be the same as per the article. Most mobile devices supports multiple access point profile and they will auto-connect to which ever has greater strength.
I'm pretty sure you are looking at http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3810281
"Technically, when in client mode, your router can only pass the incoming wireless signal to clients connected to one of the router's LAN ports. To re-broadcast the signal wirelessly, the router would need to be configured as a repeater—unfortunately, Tomato does not yet support repeater mode."
Well that's exactly what I am doing though. The computer WILL be connected to router 2 by ethernet, as it does not have wireless. If it did, I would not have this problem. I do not want a repeater. I want a bridge :-) That's also why both routers must have same SSID and pass.
http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/using-tomato-as-wireless-repeat...
I don't have a tomato so I wouldn't know, but I've tested it with 2 DD-WRT, 1 in Primary Gateway (DNS+DHCP) and one acting as wireless repeater and it works for me. On 1/7/2015 9:22 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
I don't think you understood what I am trying to do. The routers will
not be physically connected, only over wireless.
On Jan 7, 2015 9:19 PM, <littlebear@xxw.ca <mailto:littlebear@xxw.ca>>
wrote:
Plug the second router (acting as switch) WAN port to regular
port. There should be no WAN Ethernet connected on the second router
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Here's another project I'm working on that is driving me around
the bend.
Sorry this is such a long story...
A computer in our basement has no wireless, so instead of running a long cable to it, I wanted to put a router beside it and have it connect to that router by ethernet, and then have that router
to the main one over wireless. No, I did not plug the computer into the WAN port... ;-)
I have an old Linksys router WRT54GL v. 1.1 running Tomato 1.28, and my main router, the Buffalo N600 which has DD-WRT.
According to about a hundred different howto's it should be very
simple.
I set the second router to an IP outside the DHCP range of the
first,
and set also set it to use the first router as gateway and DNS. I
also
set the SSID and password the same, and also the type of security used. Oh, and obviously I set the second router as 'Wireless
Ethernet
Bridge'.
router 1 is 192.168.11.1, router 2 is 192.168.11.2
both have 255.255.255.0 as subnet mask
Router 1 gives out addresses starting at 192.168.11.5
Am I correct in assuming that DHCP broadcasts should be relayed by
connect the
second router? In wireless bridge mode it doesn't appear to even
have
the option of offering DHCP...
I noticed that the Buffalo will let you set up a virtual interface,
so
I tried using that with no security at all.
I also found something here:
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/reuse-an-old-router-to-bridge-devices-to-your-wir...
that said I should set the second router to operate as a router and not as a gateway so I changed that.
Still no ping response from google.com <http://google.com> :-\
The only thing I can think of is that maybe the firewall settings
are
wrong on the second router, running Tomato.
Respond to ICMP is unchecked, Allow Multicast is unchecked, NAT Loopback is set to Forwarded Only, and Enable SYN cookies is unchecked.
Help!
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