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 the Repeater. Now that you've got your oldie-but-goodie router set up with DD-WRT, you can set it up to pick up the signal from your primary router and re-broadcast it within its own Setting up a Client / Repeater in DD-WRT 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. Want to help/watch me set up a DD-WRT repeater? : DDWRT DHCP is handled by a separate firewall/DHCP box in front of my main DD-WRT access point now. So this older router would need to connect by wifi to the other DD-WRT router and pass all of its DHCP requests through the first DD-WRT router to the firewall/DHCP box. It should be a simple set up from what I … DD-WRT Forum :: View topic - Setting Up WRT54G as Repeater Aug 07, 2009
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How to use and old DD-WRT router as a repeater - VPN Critic Oct 07, 2016 Setting up DD WRT as a repeater bridge.. - Democratic Setting up DD WRT as a repeater bridge.. Evidently DU2 is going away as early as tonight (Friday) so I figured I'd put this post up here too.. I have a Linksys router running DD WRT, I'm currently using it as a wireless bridge with the automatic setup and it does fine for that.
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