Repeater bridge or WDS? 1st router Tomato, 2nd DD-WRT Micro.

[Crow550]

Which would be the best option? Both routers are WRT-54Gs.

Tomato is the router hooked up to the modem & PC and DD-WRT Micro on the second. Going to be used on a second computer. Don't know 100% if expanding the wifi signal is needed.

Right now I'm trying it as a repeater bridge....

What's the main advantages of both? Or disadvantages? I know WDS can only work with WPA1 security and not WPA2.

Just wondering....

 

[skyking]

If you are talking about a single computer, you can use the <ddwrt micro> as a bridge and plug into a port on the client router. That only works for one computer.

 

[JackMDS]

Crow550 you put terms together as thought they are parallel options.

The configuration to be used depends on what you need to do.

Wireless Modes - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Modes.html
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[ecom]

I have not tried Tomato, but with DD-WRT v23, the reliability of WDS was horrible. I have not tried the WDS feature in DDWRT v24 though. I am currently using v24 in repeater bridge mode and I've found that the connection is much more reliable than WDS.

When I had WDS, I had to constantly reboot the remote device, perhaps 3 times a week. With repeater bridge, the AP is up for weeks or months at a time.