Networking – Wireless Repeater with DD-WRT

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I have an ATT wireless modem and a LinkSys Router with DD-WRT v24 sp1 installed. I went through the instructions on this page and got to the point that the DD-WRT router can talk with the modem. My goal is to use the LinkSys as a wireless repeater, but for now, while I'm testing, I'm connecting to the LinkSys router via wire.

From the DD-WRT interface, if I go to Administration -> Commands and run a "ping google.com" I get a reply, so that tells me the LinkSys and the modem are talking. However, if I try to ping google from the computer, while connected to DD-WRT via wire, I get time-outs.

I followed all the recommendations / steps on the WLAN repeater page. Any idea what else I could try? Thank you!

EDIT:

The configuration is something like this:

ATT modem:
  default gateway: 192.168.1.254
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(wireless connection)
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LinkSys WRT54GL v1.1 with DD-WRT v24 sp1
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(wired connection)
[my computer]
  IP: 192.168.2.128
  default gateway: 192.168.2.1 (LinkSys's IP)

Best Answer

pbz found that configuring DD-WRT as a Repeater Bridge instead of Repeater allowed him to access the internet when connected to his DD-WRT device via ethernet cable.

Wireless -> Basic Settings -> Wireless Mode -> Repeater Bridge

In contrast to Repeater, Repeater Bridge allows for connecting clients to be on the same subnet, in his case 192.168.1.x. Here is a comparison matrix between WDS vs Repeater vs Repeater Bridge features.

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