How to setup a DD-WRT WiFi repeater bridge Overview. DD-WRT is really a powerful router firmware and one of many cool things you can do with it is – to setup a WiFi repeater bridge. Why do that? To effortlessly extend your WiFi’s signal range. DD-WRT is an open source universal router firmware. And it’s free.
With DD-WRT you can turn you simple router into a very powerful device. While there are many uses to DD-WRT we will explain how to use it as a Wireless Repeater (Extender) to an existing WLAN without the use of WDS. This feature is done by “slicing” the WLAN adapter into Virtual Adapters: The first as a client with bridge to the main WLAN Setting up DD-WRT as a wireless repeater. Finally, head to Setup and select Basic setup. Under Network Setup, change the Router IP to a different subnet than that of your primary router. If you prefer to use the "repeater" setting it will work as well. The steps are the very same and will provide the same results. The steps outlined in this guide involve resetting your dd-wrt to factory conditions so do not attempt this if you are not comfortable with resetting your dd-wrt router. Jan 26, 2012 · I would like to (1) set my NETGEAR R6700v3 router, which is running DD-WRT firmware, as a client of my NordVPN service, with the goals of securing all home network traffic and freeing up some of the 6 slots of the service's simultaneous-device limit, BUT (2) still be able to remotely access my home network, specifically my home PC. Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:59 Post subject: Help setup two repeater linksys wrt54g. Need some input. I want to setup a wireless network throughout my house with my rosewill rnx-n4 router which is connected to my dsl modem, and repeated by 2 linksys wrt54g routers. I tried setting it up, but i was only able to achieve only certain things i wanted.
How To Set Up A Repeater Bridge On Your DD-WRT Router. To begin, make sure that the main router has a 192.168.1.X subnet and leases a DHCP address in the same pool. The secondary router must be running DD-WRT. To ensure easy setup, always click Save and not Apply between steps. Reset to Factory Defaults on the secondary DD-WRT router.
I do not own a ea6400, but I looked at the user interface online and it does not seem to have repeater. But, If you have a cat-5 cable going from the first router (LAN port) to it, you should be able to plug it into the WAN port on the 6400 and set it to bridge mode instead.
Bring up the DD-WRT setup page. Look at the upper right corner at the numbers next to WAN IP:.These should not be 0.0.0.0, if they are then you will need to go back to the normal repeater tutorial and assure that you are connected to the host AP. In our example it is 192.168.1.132.
Repeater Bridge - DD-WRT Wiki For a secondary router running DD-WRT, the wireless mode must be configured as Repeater Bridge. It will connect to a primary router in AP mode (DD-WRT default) with DHCP Server enabled . Any type of VAP (Virtual Access Point) on the host should work, including a WDS-AP (Atheros) or any VAP including on another RB, but can depend on the host router.