Help Bridging Huawei and TPLink

[srothman]

Can someone give some guidance in how to bridge a Huawei HG532f and a TP-Link TD-W8960N.

The Huawei is connected to the internet, servicing all my wireless devices.

I have the TP-Link router connected to my PC in the other room via Ethernet cable, and I would like to connect this router to the Huawei via wifi to get my PC on the internet.

When I enable WDS on the Huawei and scan, it picks up the TP-Link router and it adds the MAC address into the list of repeaters.

On the TP-Link I enable bridge mode (AP Mode) and it picks up the Huawei and associated MAC, which I select and apply.

What do I need to do on the TP-Link, or elsewhere, to get it working?

Any help much appreciated.

 

[ODTech]

Can someone give some guidance in how to bridge a Huawei HG532f and a TP-Link TD-W8960N.

The Huawei is connected to the internet, servicing all my wireless devices.

I have the TP-Link router connected to my PC in the other room via Ethernet cable, and I would like to connect this router to the Huawei via wifi to get my PC on the internet.

When I enable WDS on the Huawei and scan, it picks up the TP-Link router and it adds the MAC address into the list of repeaters.

On the TP-Link I enable bridge mode (AP Mode) and it picks up the Huawei and associated MAC, which I select and apply.

What do I need to do on the TP-Link, or elsewhere, to get it working?

Any help much appreciated.

You need to put one in station/client mode and one in access point mode. If neither device has has station or client then you can go access point to access point but the speed for data transfer via wifi is going to suck big time.

Also, either way you need to use WEP security. Not 100% sure if it's still true but give it a shot.

 

[srothman]

Thanks for the suggestions, I actually managed to get it working.
I had to, like you mention, change to WEP (IF I had opened my eyes I would have seen this in big bold letters in the TP-Link console), and for some reason my PC default gateway kept on reverting back to the wrong IP.
Sorted that out and all good.

 

[brothelcreeper]

Hello

I have been battling with this now for 2 weeks.

Same scenario: Huawei and Tp-link

Huawei

BASIC - WLAN - WDS - ENABLE - Security(select WEP then set key) - Scan and find the tplink- select it and submit - 100%

Tp-link

LAN - DHCP - disable

WIRELESS - Acess point - enabled

SSID - own, authentication type - WPA2-PSK, Encryption - AES, preshared key - own,

Wds mode - on, wds encryption type - AES, WDS key - HUAWEI'S key, enter mac of hauwei device

I still get no net through the tp link, any ideas ?? Pllleeeeaaaasseeee

Please help

 

[steel_dog]

I had tried the same between my Billion 8800NXL and Asus RT68U... and it sucked big time.
Speeds were terribly unstable. Neither Billion nor Asus were able to advise. Billion local support were clueless and Asus refused to engage on the matter. They basically said - Our WDS works. Talk to the other router provider.
I have a 20mbps VDSL connection. Bridged the two devices on the 2.4ghz channel and couldn't constantly achieve above 12mbps.
Other issue was that the connection intermittently dropped and only a reset rectified it.
Would be good to hear what speeds you're getting. I did all my testing with iPerf.

Oh... and you might find you get constantly bumped from 300mbps to 150mbps ... that's because of two N protocol devices in close proximity and the N protocol trying to "play nice". It drops the connection speed of one.