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How do I setup a router as an access point?

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McQualude

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I have an Linksys WRT54GL and an older D-Link Di-524, both are wireless. I need to setup an access point in another room for my 360 and stuff. Can I do this with the Linksys, do I need to flash the firmware? Not sure how to do this.
 
Thanks, I know what I want to do but I'm not sure on exactly how to get there.

edit: okay, reading that link it looks like I want an independent bridge.

My computer, cable modem and D-link wireless router are in room A.

My xbox360 and other stuff are in room B. So I need to connect the several devices in room B to the wireless network. Since they are all close together I figured I could plug them into another wireless router which somehow I can make talk to the other wireless router.

I'll read through the link on wireless bridging and hopefully that is what I want to do. Thanks again.
 
Okay, the flash went fine and I followed the instructions to the letter but its a no-go - nothing connected to the bridge will connect to the internet. Disabled security to eliminate that variable but no effect. Been googling and reading but I'm not finding any additional information.

There is a setting for DNS in the DD-WRT settings, none of the instructions mention this setting so I left it blank; otherwise, I can't think of anything else to do.
 
router = dlink di-524
bridge is = linksys WRT54GL w/ dd-wrt.v24_mini_generic.bin
I've switched it on and off a number of times.

When the bridge is connected with a cable I can connect to it through my router but I cannot connect wirelessly.
Should I be able to ping the bridge wireless through the command prompt? That would be a nice quick way to know if they're talking.

Network looks like:
cable modem->router->VOIP box, computer,

The router is 192.168.0.1
The bridge is 192.168.0.200
computer is 192.168.0.103
xbox 360 is 192.168.0.109

[edit: guess I didn't figure out security, the bridge won't keep a hex key in the field, after saving and it resets the field to ten zeroes.]

One other thing I'm not sure about, say I connect something to wireless bridge...
I give it an ip of 192.168.0.44
subnet 255.255.255.0
What should the gateway and DNS be? Should they be set to the bridge (192.168.0.200)? Or should the DNS be the real DNS of my ISP?

 
Make it first working with the security Off.

DNS of all network devices behind the Router that do not set to Auto Obtain should be the core IP of the Router (192.168.0.1)

Wireless network devices like Routers have two IPs, one the core IP of the device ( 192.168.0.200 in your case) and a second one to the Access Point of the Router ( probably the 192.168.0.44, the second one is there, by usually can be ignored for setting purposes).
 
Thanks. It got lost in the shuffle but I had mentioned it wasn't working with security off.

But.

It appears to be working now. I changed the ssid of both devices (although they were the same before), double and triple checked all settings, rebooted both and now it is working, sans security. Signal strength is 86% with them 12 inches apart, hopefully it doesn't drop much more when I move it across the house.

Unfortunately anything entered in the key field of the bridge gets reset to zeroes when I save/apply. Any attempt to set security stops the devices from talking. Going to move it into the other room and see if I get signal.


edit: up and running in the other room, signal is down to 59%, now if I can connect devices through to the internet...

double edit: connecting through the device and speed seems to be good. Now to get security working.
 
SUCCESS! Turns out the first problem was the antenna settings were not on the recommended settings by default. Same with CTS Protection Mode. The WEP issue is a bug in v.24 sp1 that has been around for months but the documentation hasn't caught up. I circumvented the problem by using WPA instead. Frak me, for the moment everything is talking and is secured but that was a whole lot more effort than I wanted to put into this. I recommend anyone using this firmware download the latest Eko TNG release which supposably fixes the problems with sp1.
 
From the weakest to the strongest, Wireless security capacity is.

No Security
MAC______(Band Aid if nothing else is available).
WEP64____(Easy, to "Break" by knowledgeable people).
WEP128___(A little Harder, but "Hackable" too).
WPA-PSK__(Very Hard to Break).
WPA-AES__(Not functionally Breakable)
WPA2____ (Not functionally Breakable).

Note 1: WPA-AES the the current entry level rendition of WPA2.

Note 2: If you use WinXP and did not updated it you would have to download the WPA2 patch from Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893357

The documentation of your Wireless devices (Wireless Router, and Wireless Computer's Card) should state the type of security that is available with your Wireless hardware.

All devices MUST be set to the same security level using the same pass phrase.
Therefore the security must be set according what ever is the best possible of one of the Wireless devices.

I.e. even if most of your system might be capable to be configured to the max. with WPA2, but one device is only capable to be configured to max . of WEP, to whole system must be configured to WEP.

If you need more good security and one device (like a Wireless card that can do WEP only) is holding better security for the whole Network, replace the device with a better one.

The Core differences between WEP, WPA, and WPA2 - http://www.ezlan.net/wpa_wep.html
 
That helps quite a bit. I guess it was a good thing it was broken, although most of my neighbors call me if their mouse comes unplugged so they aren't likely to break any encryption.
 
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