Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:45 Post subject: DD-WRT v24 RC-6 (01/02/08) mini repeater mode
I tried to setup my WRT54G as a repeater for mys wireless network based on a WRT150N.
After testing many version of DD-WRT V24 from RC1 to the latest RC8-xxxx , my result are :
The repeater mode is OK if connect by ethernet on wRT54G but not on virtual wireless wl0.1 ssid named repeater in my case
repeater is displayed in ssid network list on client side but no connection is possible with or without encryption key ??? ( signal strength 0%)
note:with v24 RC4 connection is ok ( signal strength 100%) but dhcp not working ???
I see both AP on client side one is 25 % level
the other one is 100 % so I know on which ap to connect
anyway I can check the mac AP adress I am connected to be sure
I also made test from a place where I can only connect to the bridge , the main Ap is too far and
JUST DONT USE RC6!!! Trust me, i've been having my dd-wrt v24 working on a network with 2 repeaters working for almost a year before any RC was released, when I updated to RC6 everything stopped working....then I tried v24 micro RC 5 and everything worked much better than before.....just do the tutorial on RC 5 and you will see that it will work if you use "REPEATER" mode and use different subnet IPs everytime you configure a repeater...make sure one uses 192.168.1.1 and the other one 192.168.2.1 for example....