Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 17:59 Post subject: Stuck making this work...
Hi guys,
I'm new to this forum. I have the TP-Link WA730RE and have been using it for the past week to increase the wireless range in my home. It has been wirelessly linked to my main Sky broadband router and repeating the signal. It worked as well, but after 1 or 2 days it would lock up the whole network, making it really slow to work on or to get an IP address if not already connected. The only way to solve this was to reboot the WA730RE which was becoming a pain and is what bought me here.
I'm not quite a noob and I thought I knew a lot about networking but I've installed the DD-WRT firmware onto the unit and theres a lot of stuff that mind boggles me. I've played around with the settings, followed the guide as best I can to make it all work but with no achievement.
My Sky router needs to remain the DHCP server. Devices that connect to the WA730RE need to be able to communicate with devices assigned an IP address from the Sky router as I have networked printers etc that need to be used. The Sky Router IP address is 192.168.0.1 and has a DHCP pool of 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.249. In the past I had the WA730RE with IP address 192.168.0.253 on the network.
I've tried following the guide but since it's for another router some of the pages are different and I don't get which mode I should be in, which other settings to change etc. Anyone who could give me any pointers to get this kit working it would be greatly appreciated!
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 19:38 Post subject: Finally!
The good news is I've finally managed to configure it as a repeater! Thank goodness! And it plays nice with my current network with thanks to the Bridged Network settings.
I however can't really get this to work as one big seemless network with the same SSID. I've had to set the SSID on the WA730RE as something slightly different from my router and therefore it establishes itself as a second network in the house. As the mode of the wireless has to be set to client I also can't change the Wireless channel which I think is also adding to the whole conflict of networks. Does anyone know anyway around this to make it one big seemless network or not?
This unit has 20dBm or even 27dBm radio, but in dd-wrt it works only with 17dBm TX pwr.
Also cpu speed is 400 MHz but firmware shows 350MHz...
Is it possible to fix it? _________________ TL-WR1043ND v1.8 (OpenWRT AA 12.09 + OpenVPN) AP
TL-WA730RE (svn20675) offline
TL-WA730RE (svn20675) offline
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TL-MR3420 v1.2 (OpenWRT AA 12.09, OpenVPN client, samba3.6-srv, usb, 3g) + Huawei E3131s-2 (HSPA+)
This unit has 20dBm or even 27dBm radio, but in dd-wrt it works only with 17dBm TX pwr.
I don't know where you get the idea that WA730RE should be able to output 27dBm or even 20dBm.
TP-Link specification for it is "EIRP <20dBm (EIRP)", ie the emitted power including antenna gain is less than 20dBm which equals around 18 dBm or less of tx power when antenna gain is excluded. _________________ Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
I had the same speed problem, when I set encryption to AES with WPA2 Personal I got the 150mb/s
Only problem I see is some rx errors
Received (RX)
100%
132525 OK, 63 errors
Transmitted (TX)
100%
70343 OK, no error
but my other settings are as follows
Radio
Radio is On
Mode
Client Bridge
Network
N-Only (2.4 GHz)
SSID
phrunt
Channel
1 (2412 MHz)
TX Power
17 dBm
Rate
150 Mb/s
ACK Timing
15µs (2250m)
Encryption - Interface ath0
Enabled, WPA2 Personal
PPTP Status
Disconnected
R0peE wrote:
the firmware is working great 4 days non-stop now and counting , no freezes, only bug is that there is no 150mbps n connection it goes only up till 72mbps, thank you for the upload, the original firmware is instable and crappy, i talked to the TP-link support about it, but they ignored my 10th e-mail
I bought TL-WA730RE for different use off 'Range Extender' or 'Signal Intensifier'. I need router, with WAN possibility and own-connect to ISP. Mistake was that I listened to the advice on the internet, and bought something that was not purpose of routing. It led me to you. Mine infrastructure should be | ISP (cable) -> cable modem -> WiFi router >>>> WiFi Computers | but as I mistakenly bought TL-WA730RE, I would like the same infrastructure but I replaced 'WiFi Router' with TL-WA730RE.
TL-WA730RE does not WAN output, and there is no possibility in the settings for entering ISP username and password.
Cable modem is CISCO 2100. Writes that his address settings 10.2.0.1 but not working. It only works on the principle of direct connection to a PC with PPTP connection. My idea is that connect CISCO 2100 with TL-WA730RE if I could change LAN port to WAN port. Therefore be given the opportunity of entering ISP username and password in settings of TL-WA730RE.
@LOM
Is it safe to flash this unit with the latest svn20xxx? _________________ TL-WR1043ND v1.8 (OpenWRT AA 12.09 + OpenVPN) AP
TL-WA730RE (svn20675) offline
TL-WA730RE (svn20675) offline
TL-WR1043ND v1.8 (OpenWRT AA 12.09 + OpenVPN) AP
TL-MR3420 v1.2 (OpenWRT AA 12.09, OpenVPN client, samba3.6-srv, usb, 3g) + Huawei E3131s-2 (HSPA+)