lilgindauk
Senior Member
P.s I fogot to mention one thing. Before you apply the bridge connection, you need to disable your DHCP since you dont need it anymore since your internet connection is extended
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Need advise again: ADSL/Router/Wireless
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lilgindauk
Senior Member
Leon, have you bought your router yet?
leonb
Senior Member
lilgindauk,
I will today. Only two WRT54G's.
From Louisvdw posts, and another similar post in this forum, I'm starting to understand (or at least I think so) what I should do:
I set the WRT54G in my house to AP mode. I connect the modem and my desktop computer to this router. This AP will also be used to connect the laptop wirelessly.
In my friends house, I set the other WRT54G to Client mode, and connect the two desktop PC's to the router(wired). Apparently in client mode the router cannot route wireless traffic, but in my case there is no need as the two computers are close to each other.
The software settings I'm not 100% sure, but if I at least have the correct hardware setup I can work from there.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I will today. Only two WRT54G's.
From Louisvdw posts, and another similar post in this forum, I'm starting to understand (or at least I think so) what I should do:
I set the WRT54G in my house to AP mode. I connect the modem and my desktop computer to this router. This AP will also be used to connect the laptop wirelessly.
In my friends house, I set the other WRT54G to Client mode, and connect the two desktop PC's to the router(wired). Apparently in client mode the router cannot route wireless traffic, but in my case there is no need as the two computers are close to each other.
The software settings I'm not 100% sure, but if I at least have the correct hardware setup I can work from there.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
lilgindauk
Senior Member
Thats great my son!
you've got it!
Now, just remember to configure the values and your dialer! 
you've got it!
Now, just remember to configure the values and your dialer!
lilgindauk
Senior Member
When you have configured you router, remember to tell us!
leonb
Senior Member
OK, I'm halfway there...
I have set up the main WRT54G router. To this router I connected the ADSL modem and the main desktop computer. I reconfigured my internet settings through this router (remember I had to disable the routing function on my ADSL modem router - set it to bridge).
Here's the good news. Up to this point everything is working 100%. Even my girlfriend can connect wirelessly to my network and surf the internet.
So I at least know the setup in my house is working 100%.
Now I just need to connect the two computers in the other house to the second WRT54G, and setup a wireless connection to the main router. This is where I'm stuck a bit:
How do I set the second WRT54G router to client mode. I can't find it in the setup. Is this possible using the normal firmware. Ideally I don't want to upgrade the firmware, or use 3rd party until I get the setup working, because I have a week to return the equipment if the setup dont work (out of range etc.)
Wan other setting do I need to do on the second WRT54G router, or will it pick up the main network automatically.
Thanks again for helping!!
I have set up the main WRT54G router. To this router I connected the ADSL modem and the main desktop computer. I reconfigured my internet settings through this router (remember I had to disable the routing function on my ADSL modem router - set it to bridge).
Here's the good news. Up to this point everything is working 100%. Even my girlfriend can connect wirelessly to my network and surf the internet.
So I at least know the setup in my house is working 100%.
Now I just need to connect the two computers in the other house to the second WRT54G, and setup a wireless connection to the main router. This is where I'm stuck a bit:
How do I set the second WRT54G router to client mode. I can't find it in the setup. Is this possible using the normal firmware. Ideally I don't want to upgrade the firmware, or use 3rd party until I get the setup working, because I have a week to return the equipment if the setup dont work (out of range etc.)
Wan other setting do I need to do on the second WRT54G router, or will it pick up the main network automatically.
Thanks again for helping!!
leonb
Senior Member
Louisvdw said:
The options for "Wireless Network Mode" on my router is:
Disabled
Mixed
B-only
G-only
lilgindauk
Senior Member
leon,
you need to access http://192.168.1.1
from there logon and then change your neighbour's setting to bridge, its will work aswell.
configure your neigbour dialer aswell.
it should work like yours
from there its should work automattically
you need to access http://192.168.1.1
from there logon and then change your neighbour's setting to bridge, its will work aswell.
configure your neigbour dialer aswell.
it should work like yours
from there its should work automattically
leonb
Senior Member
Some feedback (almost forgot)
I got it working after installing the Sveasoft firmware, however, I'm using WDS to link the two WRT54G wireless routers.
From what I read in other forums, computers connected (wired) to the "client" WRT cannot access computers connected (wired) to the "AP" WRT in the normal Windows Networking sense. There are some commandline options to allow connecting using the computer's IP address, but I don't want such complications in a network - want it to work like in a normal wired network.
This is the reason for rather using WDS. If someone could explain how to get around the above the problem with a "client-AP" setup, I would like to try.
Apparently with every additional node in a WDS wireless network, the network speed is halved. Is this also the case if there is only two nodes - like my setup.
Also, how can I check the signal strength and connection speed between the two WRT54G's. The only thing I can see that seems to sound related is on the STATUS -> Wireless page under connectivity (or something). There it changes between 36 - 54 Mbits/s. But when doing a large file transfer between two computers via the wireless links, the download speed hits a max at about 1.5 Mbytes per second. According to my calc this is only about 12 MBits/s???? I tested this several times with no other activity on the network.
I got it working after installing the Sveasoft firmware, however, I'm using WDS to link the two WRT54G wireless routers.
From what I read in other forums, computers connected (wired) to the "client" WRT cannot access computers connected (wired) to the "AP" WRT in the normal Windows Networking sense. There are some commandline options to allow connecting using the computer's IP address, but I don't want such complications in a network - want it to work like in a normal wired network.
This is the reason for rather using WDS. If someone could explain how to get around the above the problem with a "client-AP" setup, I would like to try.
Apparently with every additional node in a WDS wireless network, the network speed is halved. Is this also the case if there is only two nodes - like my setup.
Also, how can I check the signal strength and connection speed between the two WRT54G's. The only thing I can see that seems to sound related is on the STATUS -> Wireless page under connectivity (or something). There it changes between 36 - 54 Mbits/s. But when doing a large file transfer between two computers via the wireless links, the download speed hits a max at about 1.5 Mbytes per second. According to my calc this is only about 12 MBits/s???? I tested this several times with no other activity on the network.
lilgindauk
Senior Member
set your neighbours router to client and bridge mode.
From there enter the values like id said before.
You have a wirless network, the neighbour has a wired network!
From there enter the values like id said before.
You have a wirless network, the neighbour has a wired network!
lilgindauk
Senior Member
Cool, but louis i think he needs the vpi/vci values and the mtu!