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Revision as of 14:02, 24 September 2008

I have two questions about this repeater bridge mode,

1) After leaving the secondary router (wrt54gl) on overnight in repeater bridge mode, The connection was down this morning. I re-booted the router to get the connection back up. Is this behavior normal? I will try repairing the connection next time to see if that will work. [edit] The connection was down again when I got home from work. I repaired the connection, and that restored it w/o re-booting the router.

2) Is it possible to setup wireless security on the secondary router (wrt54gl), but leave the primary router (wrt54g) unsecured? I plan to attempt this tonight, but I thought I could get valuable input here.

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why are there 2 exactly the same tuts?!

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Universal_Wireless_Repeater
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge
can someone plz merge them?!

Wrong, they're not the same!

Read them again.

Disagree with removal of 'Hard reset'

As per edit. I've set this up on two different routers and the first time could not get it to work until I did a hard soft reset. The second time I did multiple reboots from within the GUI just to be sure it was not working, only then I did a hard soft reset and it worked. Also read in the Security section of the article for other reports of same. --ChuckMcB 00:33, 8 April 2008 (CEST)

Hard reset will reset all previous steps

A hard reset means holding in the reset button until the router is back to defaults. You cannot add hard reset as the last step. First step, yes...but last step, no. Members of the forum were already getting confused, wondering why their Repeater didn't work. It's because after they got everything configured, they hard reset the router and thus lose all custom settings they just made. That is why I removed the step.

Ahh right, valid point (/me slaps head). Should have been described as a soft reset/power cycle. Power off-power on again. Still 'vote' to put the instruction back in.--ChuckMcB 23:27, 9 April 2008 (CEST)

Wep Security

I have two routers. the host is a linksys V2 with updated firmare dd-wrt. I have wep 128 bit encryption on it. I needed to extend my signal so I bought a new wrt54gV8 updated firmware to dd-wrt. I followed the instructions and was able to get them to bridge but i was not able to get to the internet. I disabled spi firewall in both but was still unable to get there.

I put the same encryption password and SSID's on both routers because I want to be able to roam.

I am not sure if this has something to do with the wep security or the SSID's etc.... I want to extend but I also want security on my network. can someone advise.

I have not seen anything explaining how to put security on you repeater bridged network in an instructional fashion.

Thanks