Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 6:52 Post subject: Repeater bridge almost there
Hi all,
I got stuck, for days now, at the finish line.
Followed wiki tuturial on creating repeater bridge. Furthermore ibused the join button in site survey.
I am able to connect to both routers setting pages, but it seems phones and iPads never connect to the secondary router!
Connection gets bad internet starts to fall out when i walk some distance. In a monitor app i ser very low signal strengh in the ssid. BUT about full signal at the same spot in the virtual ssid!
So my 5 cents ... Devices are not connecting to the secondary router at all ?
The bakkevangen8 you see is from main router not the repeater.
if you cannot connect to the VAP with wireless devices then your repeater bridge is not working.
You should search 'Repeater Bridge' in broadcom forum or at least read ¬
Many builds of last several months will not do 'Repeater Bridge'
Some K2.6 builds of last few months will not do RB but the K3.x of same build will.
You can read 'New Build' threads in broadcom forum for more info.
Why doesnt my devices pickup and connect to R2 when it is clearly better signal?
There are apps for some devices that will force connection to strongest signal.
Google could help you with that. I have not used them
but have seen a few posts in dd-wrt forums about them.
stupendous_dk wrote:
Thinking of making a connection with cable from R1 to R2 instead and trying to make a network with a new name/subnet to see how that goes.
Wired IS usually the better choice when it can be used
