Bridging Routers. Please help?!

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Jaymoss

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Hi,

I'm having alot of trouble!! I have a a Wireless router which is connected to the internet(D-link Dsl-2640U) and 3 pc's are connected to it through lan cables. I have another router in the flat which is 20metres from the d-link. On this router(TP-link tl wr642g) I have another 2 pc's connected. How do I bridge the two routers so that all the pc's can use each others resources?

Thanks in advance
 
If both routers support wds (wireless distribution service) you should be able to connect them through wireless. One router would be the transmitter and the other the receiver.
 
Both sopports 'wireless bridge'. Definition in both of these routers support manual says wireless bridge a.k.a wds
 
Surv0 said:
If all pc's and routers are using the same IP range, then there shouldnt be a problem?
Unless im not understanding you correctly...
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Same ip range, yes. But still, in wireless bridge that yields nothing. If they were wired it works??
 
Jaymoss said:
is there no one that has an answer?
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Bridge is not necessarily a WDS..

Try this.

Set router 1 as 10.0.0.1
Set router 2 as 10.0.0.2

Enable WDS on router 1. Bridging on 2.

I did this at home, and works nicely. Granted I use a linksys (dd-wrt) + telkom router.

:)
 
iDenTiTy said:
Bridge is not necessarily a WDS..

Try this.

Set router 1 as 10.0.0.1
Set router 2 as 10.0.0.2

Enable WDS on router 1. Bridging on 2.

I did this at home, and works nicely. Granted I use a linksys (dd-wrt) + telkom router.

:)
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I tried this, and still nothing:(

Should I just chuck both into the bin?:confused:
 
iDenTiTy said:
+ 1

Second this.

:)
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You guys, that's the point, it should be wireless because hanging 20 meters of cabling from the one roof to the other is not very practical. When I take these two routers and connect them with cable, everything works fine, but wired is not what I'm looking for?:eek:
 
Hi there!
I want to be able to bridge my wireless router so that more than one computer can connect to the internet with a separate (pre paid) account via the same router. is this possible and how?
I have a Mecer adsl 2 wireless router. i also have a Linskys router (not wireless) which I am not using at the moment.
 
This is a bit of a humdinger... Trying to get this working myself... :(
 
@jaymoss your wireless routers are designed as access points so a device can connect to it, but the accesspoint cannot act as a device connecting to an accesspoint. This means that pc's can connect to a router but a router cannot to another router, unless you go get a router which allow for wireless relaying.
 
something about your router being in Ad-hoc mode or something like that.
It might also be in Access Point mode as well.

Surely you should have a manual or a CD that came with the routers and that way you'll be able to set up the routers to be in a common wireless network and they'll talk the talk to each other.
 
DarrylH said:
something about your router being in Ad-hoc mode or something like that.
It might also be in Access Point mode as well.
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I think you are thinking of a pc's wifi connection where you can choose ad hoc for pc-pc and access point for pc-network.

Not all models of wireless access points operate in relay mode.
 
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