networking - Wireless Access Point (DD-WRT) does not accept wireless connections
2013-08
Shajirr
I have two routers, and need to link them using an ethernet cable.
Previously they were connected wirelessly in Repeater Bridge mode for the DD-WRT router (and the other router having a DHCP server and connection to the internet), and working just fine - both accepted wired/wireless connections.
The reason I want to set up a second router as an access point is that wireless connection between 2 routers is very slow and becomes unstable when a large number of connections is made (torrent) or the overall data transfer volume increases (someone tries to stream hi-res video)
However, when I try to set the DD-WRT router to Access Point mode using this tutorial:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point
, the DD-WRT router simply stops accepting wireless connections, and only functions as a switch, accepting wired connections only. When I try to connect by wi-fi, I simply get "Windows was unable to connect to *some_network_name_here*" after entering the password. I've tried to connect to it using 3 different devices, so the router's config is clearly at fault.
Can someone explain what can be wrong with access point router setup, maybe something not covered in the above mentioned tutorial?
The firmware version used now is:
DD-WRT v24-sp2 (07/22/09) micro
The router's model is "Linksys WRT54G"
pbz
I have an ATT wireless modem and a LinkSys Router with DD-WRT v24 sp1 installed. I went through the instructions on this page and got to the point that the DD-WRT router can talk with the modem. My goal is to use the LinkSys as a wireless repeater, but for now, while I'm testing, I'm connecting to the LinkSys router via wire.
From the DD-WRT interface, if I go to Administration -> Commands and run a "ping google.com" I get a reply, so that tells me the LinkSys and the modem are talking. However, if I try to ping google from the computer, while connected to DD-WRT via wire, I get time-outs.
I followed all the recommendations / steps on the WLAN repeater page. Any idea what else I could try? Thank you!
EDIT:
The configuration is something like this:
ATT modem:
default gateway: 192.168.1.254
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(wireless connection)
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LinkSys WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v24 sp1
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(wired connection)
[my computer]
IP: 192.168.2.128
default gateway: 192.168.2.1 (LinkSys's IP)
hyperslug
pbz found that configuring DD-WRT as a Repeater Bridge instead of Repeater allowed him to access the internet when connected to his DD-WRT device via ethernet cable.
Wireless -> Basic Settings -> Wireless Mode -> Repeater Bridge
In contrast to Repeater, Repeater Bridge allows for connecting clients to be on the same subnet, in his case 192.168.1.x. Here is a comparison matrix between WDS vs Repeater vs Repeater Bridge features.
i know its late to answer this post but incase someone else reads it later ill post to get access to the ddwrt just change the ip on either the dd-wrt seperate from the original group range ie. router is 192.168.0.1 ddwrt is 192.168.1.1 or pull up your original router and see what clients are connected and find the ip given for the ddwrt =D