Your 54g router becomes 27 with one router. I have not been successful in setting up a wds system with more than 3… and with 3 the last router is very weak. I have found that it is really only feesable at this point to set up a wds system with 1 router and 1 repeater PER hard wire port from the original point of connection… in otherwords you can have 6 routers as long as those routers have dhcp addressing turned off and are set to static ip address and are originating from 1 router that has dhcp addressing turned on.
I hope this makes sense… rick. I followed the instructions for WDS between 2 wrt54g routers. I get a WDS signal on both routers.
I set up router 2 as a DCH forwarder to my primary router 1 , but I cannot connect to the internet. My internet ISP is Comcast. Does that change anything? Also I cannot ping my primary router. Any ideas? Hi I have set up all my linksys routers on WDS mode. All are working fine and can use the internet. Problem is cant ping the 2 client routers that are using ddwrt v24rc5. To manage this routers, I should access them directly either thru wired or wireless. I also have 2 more client routers on wds mode but using sveasoft and works fine.
It can be pinged and can be managed using webmanager. You should be able to ping and access all routers through anyother router. It seems ddwrt, if i remember correctly has the block anonymous internet requests enabled… but i may be totally off there… that is the first thing i would try. I am not anywhere near my network at the moment… it will be a couple of days till i am but… hopefully you will have it figured out quickly… please let me know if you find out anything before i respond again… thanks rick.
I am not certain which routers you are speaking of but if you are referring to the trendnet or belkin mb wireless routers i do not believe you will get mb data transfer. From all the specifications i have been able to obtain or read. The data transfer speeds are still 54mb.
In addition … i am not a netgear,or belkin fan and trendnet is abit farther down my list of preferred routers. Not saying anything is necessarily wrong with them but i use, dependon and prefer linksys. I did however notice that ddwrt can be flashed to the wrt54gs which has the possibility of mb. Now the second portion of your question … in reverse order i guess…i believe it is possible to mix and mingle 2 different routers as long as the software is compatable on both and… you are using wds on both… be sure the wireless channels network ssid, username and password are the same on both routers.
I would still prefer to use identical routers to be safe and have less time troubleshooting in the event of missed settings between the 2 routers. Thanks for the help. I use my AP ocassionaly and would not like to reconfigure my main router every time when AP is off. Thanks, Paul. Hi Earl, Will unavailable AP not overload base router performance establish connection and so on..
It depends on what the PC connected to this 2nd AP will be doing. I see there is also a beta version for version 2 but i do not see version 1. I have honestly never even turned on a n let alone tested for compatability. I find with the 54g having the ability to over clock and up the signal power …. What are the strengths of the … a bit longer area for signal? So i guess there could be a benifit there IF you are transfering data across the network … but you are not going to see it on internet as i have not seen a consumer connection over 10mbps anyway.
Airport Express will not be able to participate in the WDS network. I traded it for wrt54g but got stuck with a version 7 which again doesnt work! Hrishi, I am using wrt54g v8 and wrt54g v7.
Both are working … You should not have a problem with them. As long as you install the correct firmware on each router. However I am not certain which version of routers you are using. If using 54g v7 or earlier.. With the 2 different versions there is just a bit of difference but it does not affect the wds portion.
Nor does it affect the power wattage increase or the transmit power. Install the correct version on each router. Log in with the new credentials. Use LAN as the type of wds to use Set router 1 with router 2 mac and …. On linksys you will find the wireless address is 2 digits greater than the physical mac.
You should see some signal strength. Depending on the distance of the two routers from each other that strength will be variable. Mine is at After you get your routers to see each other you should now be able to connect with your laptop, or wireless computer if thats what you are connecting to. Scan for a wireless network from somewhere in the middle and you should see both routers … as you have w ssid names at this point.
You may now if you wish set both routers to the same ssid. In addition if you choose you may now set the wireless security to your liking.
I am still using wep but you may use wpa personal or wpa2 personal… if you wish. If you have done all of these things … and you need further help … contact me here.. The tx power will of course vary depending on how far away the 2 routers are from each other.
I have not attemped anything over yards and that is an outside point to point link with no obstructions and with 15dbi patch antennas. I am sure you can get much farther links than that but i have not had a need for intermediate links… My links are either short or long…. It is a bit more compatible in some cases.
I just ran into a situation this last week that i had to use talisman rather than dd-wrt. So maybe….. ALSO turn off dns masq. Stumbled upon this page today. The guide and comments helped me finally set up WDS. Have a few questions, though: 1] I overclocked both routers to mw. Nothing, absolutely nothing changed! The signal strength remained the same, even after rebooting and tinkering with antennae orientation. So, the question is, should i overclock further?
Will i be able to stream them smoothly to my laptop, which is in the other room and wirelessly connected to the 54gl? Would using samba or nfs or ftp or some other protocol improve things note, i am a complete networking newbie! But what are the other options? Krumbs… This is a long one… I hope you are up for the book that follows……… I ended up using the wrt54gl with the sveasoft talisman software.
I tried to use dd-wrt and freeman talisman Eventually they all fizzled out but the talisman. In talisman I have the option to crank up the mw to 1watt In my particular build I did just that and saw no side affects from it. I did however end up turning it back down to mw if I remember correctly..
I had a 54gl go down and fail to pass dns over the system. I just replaced it reflashed the firmware and reapplied the old config file to the new router… up and running in 20 min… Now….. Overclocking is changing the clock rate of the nvram … You can overclock the wrt54g to approx mhz and above that you run into issues with the actual clock not changing unless you start fiddeling with jtag and custom flashing. I have not seen a reason to up the clock rate of the nvram.
As far as the tx rate… some will tell you anything over 90mw and you just produce noise… I cannot tell you if that is true or not.
You should see more speed by using the n routers as the transfer rates are much higher and 5ghz for less interferance. Maybe that makes more sense to you …. You also need to pay attention to the NAS you get… I have had a couple of NAS and the bottleneck was at the nas for me… data transfer on those things are horrible… Unless it has changed in the last year, I would consider putting in a 1tb hdd on your xp box… sharing the drive and making sure you are using gb ethernet in addition to your n….
It is also my opinion someone please correct me if I am wrong using ftp, samba or any other protocol just adds overhead to the data being transferred.
You will not see an increase in speed… you will more than likely see a degridation in your speed…. One final thought for you… your wireless will NEVER produce the speed that is advertised on the router… your 54g router will NEVER produce 54Gb on a network…unless you are sitting next to the router … you wont even come close….
I believe in the link I gave you, It will show you the speeds of the actual packet transfer… you will see…. I did not intend to mislead in the previous post… I had to use sveasoft talisman software on my system due to wep … I have a password encrypted wireless network I maintain and with wep enabled I kept getting kicked off of the network the network crashed It took a while but I figured out that DHCP kept failing when the ISP reset the IP address of the primary router.
If you have a static ip address you should not have this problem. Hope this does not confuse you readers in thinking the ddwrt software does not work… that is not what I mean by this. As a matter of fact … it worked great for 2 months till I set up wep on all 5 routers. Then every couple of weeks… IP changed but the primary router would not release and renew automatically… I had to manually reset the primary router. Just came by this post — I enjoyed the read and picked up a few points.
I have been for many years and continue to be a dd-wrt user. Way better logging along with all of the other features that others are lagging. For my AP and repeaters I am still using dd-wrt. Mick, the wrt v8 is not a great router for the firmware. I know it says it is supported with ddwrt micro firmware but…. If you can afford them go purchase 2 wrt54 gl or wrtg54 tm routers. If not …. The two devices could be incompatible in WDS bridge mode if internet still does not work after power cycling them.
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From Germany? Get products, events and services for your region. The purpose of this guide is to show some solutions to solve the most common problems that you may face in the implementation of a network Wi-Fi hotspot. A network Wi-Fi hotspot is basically composed of two elements: Hotspot Router : Its task is to manage connections hotspot, ie to enable or disable users to access the Internet.
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