Hi, I have never managed to get a repeater type setup on a WAP working, not sure if I misunderstood what it should do but I have configured it very similar to you. I have had luck with wireless extender type products which act as a wireless client to the existing wireless network, then re-broadcast the signal on the same or different SSID. On the models I have you can either have it act as a router (so you get NAT in NAT), or it will just dump the user on the existing network which is good for an extender device. I have a very small device which I set up in this way when out and about, which means I can use wireless radio type devices when in hotels etc and only authenticate to the hotel network using one MAC address. The same device can be configured in repeater mode as well but when I have put it in repeater mode as opposed to extender mode it just doesn't seem to work. When in extender mode I can also use the LAN ports as ethernet giving a wired connection of sorts. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: David Mehler [dave.mehler@gmail.com] Sent: 21 August 2018 13:50 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: repeater not repeating Hi Bill, Thanks for your reply. The two routers are definitely not close enough for an ethernet connection between the two. What about a wds setup? Would that work? I was hoping that the repeater would repeat the signal from router1 including the SSID. Thanks. Dave. On 8/20/18, Bill Dengler <codeofdusk@gmail.com> wrote:
For this sort of thing, I think you may need a different SS ID. If the routers were connected by ethernet (which is a better solution), you could set the second one up as a wireless access point and mirror the SS ID.
Bill
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On Aug 20, 2018, at 20:26, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I've got an issue with a repeater router it's not repeating.
My setup is a cable modem, going to an ISP-provided router, (I'll be getting rid of that and it's not relevant), and an Asus RTN66U running dd-wrt daisy chained on to the isp-provided router. To this setup I've got a multi-story home and want to add a repeater. So on the second floor I've got another Asus RTN66U also running dd-wrt that I'm trying to get to repeat the signal from the other router. On the second floor router i've turned on repeater-bridge mode in case I want to hook a client in via ethernet, and set wan connection type to disabled. Under security i've turned off everything as security should be handled by the primary router. I've also switched from AP to repeater-bridge. In the wireless configuration i'm eventually wanting to repeat both the 2.4 and 5GHZ signals, but for now am only trying to get the 2.4 going. All those settings match the primary router, SSID, channel, WPA2 key, etc.
Currently I have an ethernet plugged in to the second router and am trying via wireless to obtain a dhcp address from the primary router which they should be talking.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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