Setup WRT54GL as repeater, just a couple questions

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 21:21    Post subject: Setup WRT54GL as repeater, just a couple questions Reply with quote
Hi guys,

Without setting up WDS, I'm wondering if I can simply for the repeater usage for everyone in the household.

Currently, the repeater is setup with a different SSID so users have to manually connect to the repeater when they get to the zone it's in.

This is inconvenient so I'm wondering if there's a way to set it up like WDS without actually using WDS (had some problems with it last time).

We have a macbooks, windows computers, and phones on the network. Any way we can set those devices to automatically 'roam' to the strongest AP?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 21:36    Post subject: Wireless AP Reply with quote
If you can run a Ethernet cord from your primary router to the WRT54G you could make it into a AP and it'll bridge the two routers.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 21:57    Post subject: Re: Wireless AP Reply with quote
NoobWRT wrote:
If you can run a Ethernet cord from your primary router to the WRT54G you could make it into a AP and it'll bridge the two routers.


Hmm.. half way down the house I have an ethernet cord coming from the router to a switch which goes out to our vonage device and printer.

Could I patch in the 2nd router into that switch and achieve the same thing?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 22:01    Post subject: Re: Wireless AP Reply with quote
Bascotie wrote:
NoobWRT wrote:
If you can run a Ethernet cord from your primary router to the WRT54G you could make it into a AP and it'll bridge the two routers.


Hmm.. half way down the house I have an ethernet cord coming from the router to a switch which goes out to our vonage device and printer.

Could I patch in the 2nd router into that switch and achieve the same thing?

yes.. set the router up as a switch & AP (wiki).

Use the same ssid on both your main ap and the new ap but use different channels. The wireless clients should roam seamlessly.

Check the clients though. I have one laptop that has a setting for how it will roam.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 23:16    Post subject: Re: Wireless AP Reply with quote
barryware wrote:
Bascotie wrote:
NoobWRT wrote:
If you can run a Ethernet cord from your primary router to the WRT54G you could make it into a AP and it'll bridge the two routers.


Hmm.. half way down the house I have an ethernet cord coming from the router to a switch which goes out to our vonage device and printer.

Could I patch in the 2nd router into that switch and achieve the same thing?

yes.. set the router up as a switch & AP (wiki).

Use the same ssid on both your main ap and the new ap but use different channels. The wireless clients should roam seamlessly.

Check the clients though. I have one laptop that has a setting for how it will roam.


Thanks Barry,

I also just realized that I can get rid of that old switch if I use this router as an access point / switch since only 2 devices are connected, so I'll have a port or two free.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 14:59    Post subject: Reply with quote
just a tip-if you have communication problems, you might have to keep the remote switch and daisy chain the router you are using as a wired ap to it.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 16:53    Post subject: Reply with quote
madman999 wrote:
just a tip-if you have communication problems, you might have to keep the remote switch and daisy chain the router you are using as a wired ap to it.

Why?

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:12    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've noticed since doing this (hooking the main router directly to the repeater and setting it up as AP/Switch), that google voice is having more of a delay.

Not sure this is what caused it, but wanted to ask if I needed to set a particular uplink port somehow?

EDIT: Also, is it necessary to plug the main router into the AP, or can it just go Wifi(main) to Wifi(AP) and repeat signal from there/allow incoming hardline connections? (I tried just unplugging the incoming main connection but it disconnects devices plugged into the AP)
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 14:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bascotie wrote:
EDIT: Also, is it necessary to plug the main router into the AP, or can it just go Wifi(main) to Wifi(AP) and repeat signal from there/allow incoming hardline connections?


Isn't that the setup you started with that you asked to change to an AP. In any event, see the wiki: linking rourtrs.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 19:27    Post subject: Reply with quote
Murrkf wrote:
Bascotie wrote:
EDIT: Also, is it necessary to plug the main router into the AP, or can it just go Wifi(main) to Wifi(AP) and repeat signal from there/allow incoming hardline connections?


Isn't that the setup you started with that you asked to change to an AP. In any event, see the wiki: linking rourtrs.


The setup I started with used different SSID's =/
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