Setting up access point (DD-WRT) (BT INFINITY)

coughs · 15 Jun 2013 at 22:20

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could please help me on how to setup a access point because I just can't seem to figure it out. I have BT infinity if that makes any difference and I can also PM anyone my teamviewer info if necessary

Thanks guys much appreciated

Danny091 · 15 Jun 2013 at 22:33

Have you connected the dd-wrt to the BT router with a cable or wireless?

coughs · 15 Jun 2013 at 22:52

The access point with wrt is connected to the bt home hub and I am connected wirelessly to it to get into the control panel

Danny091 · 15 Jun 2013 at 22:53

How have you connected the wrt to the home hub, have you run a cable or planning on joining them wireless?

coughs · 15 Jun 2013 at 22:57

Right now it's connected to the hub by Ethernet cable but once it's working it will go downstairs via cat5

Danny091 · 15 Jun 2013 at 22:58

trust me your teamviewer and ill have a look, never done it on WRT before but done it with other routers. hopefully the knowledge will transfer over!.

coughs · 16 Jun 2013 at 00:23

Thanks Danny for trying! anyone else want to try?

techmob · 16 Jun 2013 at 01:24

BT home hub should be connected via Ethernet to the Ap device

Ap device should have a static IP address within the subnet range of the bt home hub router, set that to something outside of the dhcp range.

The AP should have dhcp disabled and the bt home hub should handle this.

Set an encryption on the ap, preferably to match your home hub, doesn't really matter but you don't want it open

In theory that should be enough as long as you authenticate against the AP, this should then route you through it's gateway which will be the home hub thus giving you an ip address, dns and Internet access

Danny091 · 16 Jun 2013 at 02:03

techmob said:
BT home hub should be connected via Ethernet to the Ap device

Ap device should have a static IP address within the subnet range of the bt home hub router, set that to something outside of the dhcp range.

The AP should have dhcp disabled and the bt home hub should handle this.

Set an encryption on the ap, preferably to match your home hub, doesn't really matter but you don't want it open

In theory that should be enough as long as you authenticate against the AP, this should then route you through it's gateway which will be the home hub thus giving you an ip address, dns and Internet access

Thats what i tried but it wasn't having it

bremen1874 · 16 Jun 2013 at 02:22

The earlier screen grab shows the access point with an IP of 192.168.1.1. What's the IP of the router?

coughs · 16 Jun 2013 at 06:51

The IP of the BT Home Hub router is 192.168.1.254. Anyone else willing to give it a try via teamviewer? Cheers

techmob · 16 Jun 2013 at 09:02

I will when I get up if you want.

coughs · 16 Jun 2013 at 09:18

Thanks I've trusted you my email so you can contact me for my teamviewer info let me know if you haven't received it!

techmob · 16 Jun 2013 at 09:33

Hey

No email or access to pm here?

coughs · 16 Jun 2013 at 09:39

Email me and i'll send you the teamviewer info right over. thanks.

techmob · 16 Jun 2013 at 09:41

Email sent, getting up now. Start a word doc to chat or a chat window of some sort in case I need you to do something

techmob · 16 Jun 2013 at 11:41

I had a look at this.

home hub ip 192.168.1.254
dd wrt ip 192.168.1.1

both on the same subnet

dd wrt - has the gateway and dns set to 192.168.1.254
has wireless mode set as AP

has DHCP forwarded enabled and IP for DHCP server 192.168.1.254

firewall and other settings disabled on DD WRT

when you run an ipconfig

the wireless picks up an ip address however it has a gateway and dns of 192.168.1.1

this is probably why it is not picking up internet as it is not getting to the gateway for some reason.

Swifty55 · 16 Jun 2013 at 11:57

I can take a look?

Did this a while ago for my brother - hopefully have the settings saved somewhere.

coughs · 16 Jun 2013 at 17:52

Thanks guys I am actually receiving a Asus RT-AC66U tomorrow to replace my home hub 3 so if anyone is willing to help me out tomorrow they can setup that too

Also does anyone know if the AC66U will improve the range comparing to home hub 3?

coughs · 17 Jun 2013 at 13:45

Got my AC66U working which replaced the home hub 3 but the DD-WRT access point is still not working.. Anyone willing to try fix it via teamviewer?

Cheers