WHR-G300N - Access Point & Repeater Bridge - HOW-TO

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:03    Post subject: WHR-G300N - Access Point & Repeater Bridge - HOW-TO Reply with quote
You need to be logged in to see the images, not sure why?

I know a lot of people are having WDS issues.

Also people are having issues with Access Point & Repeater Bridge configurations.

This should be a step by step on the relevant settings you need.

Any other settings are your own tweaks, un-necessary for the AP & RB setup.

Follow the #'s of the attached images.
Sometimes the forum shows them out of order.

Go through AP-RB-01 thru AP-RB-05 for the Access Point
Go through AP-RB-06 thru AP-RB-10 for the Repeater Bridge

You can choose Upper or Lower range, and whichever wireless channel you want.

This config will allow for a Pure-N setup

The Greenfield mode prevents any Wireless-G from connecting.

This is a Wireless-N only config!

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:03    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pics 3 and 4 are Wireless settings for the Access Point

For a Wireless-N standard, WPA2-AES encryption is required!

You can mess with Transmit power, I have mine set @ 130mw

For the main Access Point - leave Firewall settings to Default

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:03    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is the Repeater Bridge setup portion of the post

These 2 posts are for the Wireless settings part of the Repeater Bridge

On the Repeater Bridge - you have to setup a Virtual Interface

Name the virtual interface SSID the same as the wireless interface SSID

Don't forget to set WPA2-AES for both the wireless and virtual interfaces

Use the SAME key as on the main access point

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:04    Post subject: Reply with quote
Repeater Bridge - main setup tab

You can choose to assign the WAN port to switch or not

Name the repeater bridge the same as the access point

Assign the repeater bridge IP the next increment.

So if main AP is 10.0.0.1, RB would be 10.0.0.2

Gateway and DNS is pointed to the main AP IP address

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:04    Post subject: Reply with quote
Repeater Bridge - Firewall settings

This one is important... there are the before and after pictures

Follow the #'s - do #1, then #2, then #3 then hit Apply Settings!

As shown in the After Pic - Filter Multicast should still be checked
even though it is greyed out, it should be left checkmarked!

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:59    Post subject: Reply with quote
Reserved - In case I forgot anything

This should also work for other RaLink based routers.

Very similar setup to AP & RB for Broadcom, just some minor settings that are different.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 17:29    Post subject: Reply with quote
Where are the "attached images?"
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 17:31    Post subject: Reply with quote
sarcher wrote:
Where are the "attached images?"

Nevermind, now I see them. Must be my browser.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 23:17    Post subject: Reply with quote
you have to log in with an account on the forum to see the attached pictures.
that must be why you havn't seen them before posting your reply.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:19    Post subject: Reply with quote
so i cant apply this so a mixed b/n network? i have two of the WHR-G300N. the main is in my living room. i want to broadcast wireless to my secondary router in my room to split it over ethernet devices. i believe wireless bridging is the term. this isnt possible with this router? can i do it using the repeater bridge..problem is i want G devices to be able to connect to. thank you
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:37    Post subject: Reply with quote
antok86 wrote:
so i cant apply this so a mixed b/n network? i have two of the WHR-G300N. the main is in my living room. i want to broadcast wireless to my secondary router in my room to split it over ethernet devices. i believe wireless bridging is the term. this isnt possible with this router? can i do it using the repeater bridge..problem is i want G devices to be able to connect to. thank you


You CAN do this with a Mixed network, just choose MIXED setting instead of N-Only

Ignore the N-Only and Greenfield settings - I choose those because I'm only using Pure N network.

Everything else would be the same.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:09    Post subject: Reply with quote
DoesItMatter wrote:
antok86 wrote:
so i cant apply this so a mixed b/n network? i have two of the WHR-G300N. the main is in my living room. i want to broadcast wireless to my secondary router in my room to split it over ethernet devices. i believe wireless bridging is the term. this isnt possible with this router? can i do it using the repeater bridge..problem is i want G devices to be able to connect to. thank you


You CAN do this with a Mixed network, just choose MIXED setting instead of N-Only

Ignore the N-Only and Greenfield settings - I choose those because I'm only using Pure N network.

Everything else would be the same.

ok ill try this tomorrow...when you say access point..this means it still has to be connected to a gateway router?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:04    Post subject: Reply with quote
antok86 wrote:

ok ill try this tomorrow...when you say access point..this means it still has to be connected to a gateway router?


Well, typically the main Access Point is the gateway router, but you can have other access points.

A repeater bridge repeats the signal, and is technically an access point when a client connects to it.

Dont get hung up on the terminology.

AP = main router
RB = repeater bridge = wireless or wired device that repeats a signal

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
DoesItMatter wrote:
antok86 wrote:

ok ill try this tomorrow...when you say access point..this means it still has to be connected to a gateway router?


Well, typically the main Access Point is the gateway router, but you can have other access points.

A repeater bridge repeats the signal, and is technically an access point when a client connects to it.

Dont get hung up on the terminology.

AP = main router
RB = repeater bridge = wireless or wired device that repeats a signal

can you plug in ethernet devices into the RB and it will work?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:10    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes! you can do that!

At that point, its called a Wireless Bridge.

I.e. it wirelessly bridges the devices, and the Lan ports can be used.

That way it looks like its connected directly to the main Access point.

When you do a repeater bridge, and connect wirelessly to the RB,
you actually only have 1/2 the bandwidth available.

BUT, when you do a wireless bridge, wired clients actually have the full bandwidth.

Full is relative, depends on signal, re-transmissions for errors, etc.

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