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Hi All,
I have an Asus RT-AC68U which gives amazing 2.4Ghz/5Ghz wireless performance all throughout my house.
It replaced my ageing DLINK DIR-655 which was a single band device configured on 2.4Ghz because not all devices connected to my network support 5Ghz.
My problem is my RT-AC68U router and main PC both sit upstairs, but I have a server downstairs.
The server MUST have a LAN connection as its running a special linux build (VMware ESXi) that doesnt support WiFi so currently its connected via Powerline.
The powerline connection only gives me about a 35mbps connection (or about 3.5MB/s).
I thought since I now have 2 wireless 5Ghz routers I could maybe create a wireless bridge with the server plugged into the LAN on the second bridged router as the 5Ghz speed should be much greater than the Powerline speed, but I found that wireless bridges are actually the same as wireless repeating....
I don't want to use wireless repeating for various reasons, the main one being I don't want 5Ghz devices connecting to my older slower draft-n DIR-655 downstairs and going across the bridge instead of connecting directly to my 1900 AC router upstairs.
Does anyone know how I could create a bridge between the 2 wireless devices without the second device (DIR-655) acting as a repeater and accepting requests from other clients?
Just thought as I'm typing this maybe I could use MAC address filtering on the second device? not sure if that would work...
Either way I'd appreciate any input!
I have an Asus RT-AC68U which gives amazing 2.4Ghz/5Ghz wireless performance all throughout my house.
It replaced my ageing DLINK DIR-655 which was a single band device configured on 2.4Ghz because not all devices connected to my network support 5Ghz.
My problem is my RT-AC68U router and main PC both sit upstairs, but I have a server downstairs.
The server MUST have a LAN connection as its running a special linux build (VMware ESXi) that doesnt support WiFi so currently its connected via Powerline.
The powerline connection only gives me about a 35mbps connection (or about 3.5MB/s).
I thought since I now have 2 wireless 5Ghz routers I could maybe create a wireless bridge with the server plugged into the LAN on the second bridged router as the 5Ghz speed should be much greater than the Powerline speed, but I found that wireless bridges are actually the same as wireless repeating....
I don't want to use wireless repeating for various reasons, the main one being I don't want 5Ghz devices connecting to my older slower draft-n DIR-655 downstairs and going across the bridge instead of connecting directly to my 1900 AC router upstairs.
Does anyone know how I could create a bridge between the 2 wireless devices without the second device (DIR-655) acting as a repeater and accepting requests from other clients?
Just thought as I'm typing this maybe I could use MAC address filtering on the second device? not sure if that would work...
Either way I'd appreciate any input!
