Can someone recommend something to extend the signal from the primary router?

Nate Silvers · 23 Mar 2015 at 17:07

I need an access point / wireless repeater.
Can someone recommend something to extend the signal from the primary router?

jfish · 23 Mar 2015 at 17:13

Nate Silvers said:
I need an access point / wireless repeater.
Can someone recommend something to extend the signal from the primary router?

if you want to extend your network over wifi - instead of connecting the access point via a ethernet cable to the primary router - then the cheapest method would be to get a DDWRT enabled router. You can pick up a DIR 615D for around a tenner off Ebay - configure the ddwrt rouuter as wireless repeater mode.

Nate Silvers · 24 Mar 2015 at 17:45

Thanks is it easy to do?

Nate Silvers · 30 Apr 2015 at 16:19

I've got the D-link router but it's been sitting over a week because I can't work out how to do this, would greatly appreciate any help

bledd · 30 Apr 2015 at 16:25

They work much better when you connect them up via ethernet.

IE, your router > ethernet to access point

DavidS14 · 30 Apr 2015 at 16:41

There's info on the wireless repeater set up for 615D DDWRT here

Nate Silvers · 30 Apr 2015 at 16:58

I can't do it wired so I'm trying to create a wlan repeater.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wlan_Repeater

Trying this guide but I'm just getting 0.0.0.0 as WAN IP

Steveocee · 30 Apr 2015 at 17:20

Nate Silvers said:
I can't do it wired so I'm trying to create a wlan repeater.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wlan_Repeater

Trying this guide but I'm just getting 0.0.0.0 as WAN IP

If you are extending a LAN network I would have expected the WAN IP to be that as it isn't actually connecting out.

Nate Silvers · 30 Apr 2015 at 17:24

True but not in this case, once the dd-wrt router has logged onto the host wlan and began repeating it's signal the dhcp address will show in the upper right hand corner as the WAN address.

I've tried turning off security for both routers and it's still not connecting. I have a virtual SSID ready but it doesn't connect to the primary router, I can't even ping it. Anyone successfully done this?

Nate Silvers · 30 Apr 2015 at 19:26

I've made some progress. I can get Client mode to extend my primary wireless routers signal but this means using a cable between computer and secondary router.

I just need to get the virtual AP to work! It just gets no WAN connection from the primary router?

I don't get it, this should be the easy part, my secondary ddwrt router has the internet connection it just needs to send it out on it's virtual ap but it won't!

can someone please advise?