[Tartarus89]

Hi,

I have very poor wi-fi signal strength upstairs from my landlord's router downstairs in his office (internet is included in my rent), so I want to use an old router I have as a wireless repeater. I'm using a dd-wrt custom firmware from 2016. Using this well-regarded guide - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge - I can't get my Cisco WRT320N router to work as a wireless repeater. It hangs at at the end of Step 7 on the "Applying Settings" screen so I can't even select the reboot option ( I have to pull the power cord out). Also, there's another router downstairs that my landlord is using as a wireless repeater which may be using the IP 192.168.1.2 so I selected 192.168.1.9 for the router I'm trying to get working as a repeater. Is this okay? Also, I can't access the router once I change the IP to 192.168.1.9. I'm using Windows 10 so how do I force it to recognize the newly assigned IP?

Thanks for any help.

[jwh7]

[Tartarus89]

[jwh7]

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[Tartarus89]

[egc]

Give your virtual interface another SSID and log into that and see of this works.

Make sure your landlords router is at 192.168.1.1

See: https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

32170 K3 is a good build and should work

[Tartarus89]

[mrjcd]

You should do this a step at a time to see where the probem is.

Turn off wireless on your PC.
Plug router into PC and log in at whatever LAN IP you have set.
You may have to set a static IP on your computer to do this -- recommended to do so during setup anyways.

Go to routerIp/Status_Wireless.asp to see if your bridge is connected. If you don't see it then you need to make adjustments to either its SSID or password or mode of connection (probably best to leave that as mixed). If in range of primary router it should connect.
Once you establish the bridge then you should be able to switch computer back to auto DHCP and get an IP & DNS.
If that don't work then reboot your PC.

Ok once the bridge is made and working then setup the VAP .... any changes made to it will likely require a router reboot for all to work and it may take a few minutes after startup to fully connect to primary router.

If all is set correctly then put the router wherever you need to and switch on your PC wireless (make sure it is also back on auto DHCP).
Should be able to see the VAP SSID and connect using its password.

Really handy to have a phone or other wireless device around so you can easily connect to the routers VAP to see
if working without having to do so many changes on the PC

~ all connections will show on the wireless status page ~

EDIT:
I see you chose LAN IP 192.168.1.9 ... that is ok if not in use by another device.
If still having trouble try setting your RB router LAN IP to 192.168.1.250 or 253 ... those are not likely to be used --- just remember what you set it to so you will be able to access it

hmm.. also see he is running some type repeater. Need to make sure your are not connected to his repeater -- prolly won't work well. Also two repeaters connected to same main can sometimes cause strange things depending on what they are ---i just remember that from the old days playing with some dd-wrt builds

[jwh7]

You should also do a reset after flashing from k2.6 to k3.x, then set up manually.

[Tartarus89]