It's vastly more reliable and hardware ambivalent than WDS. Step 6: Go to Wireless > Wireless Security, then set the same Security Mode, Algorithm, and Shared Key as your primary. Repeater-Bridge mode on DD-WRT just work (most of the time - I've seen it be touchy on some hardware). Choose a username and password, then click the Change Password button. They work for a while, then one of the AP's needs to be reset because it fell out of favor with the others. It has the benefit of using a single SSID, but I've never seen them work well. It sounds like your old router is not the same as your new one. In the Wireless Basic Settings tab set wireless mode to client, and match the setting to the remote router configurations(wireless network, SSID and channel. WDS only works on nearly identical hardware. Doubt that's what you want.Īlso, WDS is highly unlikely to work. Posted: Sat 23:39 Post subject: : Couple of more questions: As mentioned previously, I'd like to set up my Linksys router (running DD-WRT) so that it's hardwired to my new mesh router (which I don't have yet), and provides access for any device on my home network to wired devices attached to the Linksys via Ethernet AND via the Linksys' USB 3 port. You should not bother using MAC filtering as a security measure (it's useless, provides no security compared with WPA and any hacker can spoof a MAC) and virtually no services rely on MAC, because NAT is so prevalent.Ī straight repeater creates a separate subnet for clients of the repeater. This keeps all the systems on the same subnet - it's basically a range-extender, with the unlikely-to-affect you issues of MAC filtering already raised. In most cases, you want to use the Repeater Bridge option.
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