Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:03 Post subject: WHR-G300N - Access Point & Repeater Bridge - HOW-TO
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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! _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:03 Post subject:
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 _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:03 Post subject:
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 _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Linksys EA8500 - OpenWRT IPQ806x Trunk R16375 5.4 Kernel
Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:04 Post subject:
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 _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Linksys EA8500 - OpenWRT IPQ806x Trunk R16375 5.4 Kernel
Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:04 Post subject:
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! _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:59 Post subject:
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. _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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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
Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:37 Post subject:
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. _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Netgear Nighthawk R7000 - DD-WRT Build R46220
Linksys EA8500 - OpenWRT IPQ806x Trunk R16375 5.4 Kernel
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?
Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:04 Post subject:
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 _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 1380 Location: Pacific North West, USA
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:10 Post subject:
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. _________________ Soylent Green Is People !
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Netgear Nighthawk R7000 - DD-WRT Build R46220
Linksys EA8500 - OpenWRT IPQ806x Trunk R16375 5.4 Kernel