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Topic: Help setting up bridge for WRT160NL

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Hi,
So I've been studying the wiki page as well as searching forum posts for the past several hours and have had difficulty figuring out how to forward my wireless signal through a second router.  I'm using build r17264 from the ar17xx snapshot.

Here's the scenario:
Router A: Acting as a client and receiving wireless signal and forwards this signal through all of its ethernet ports *ALREADY SET UP*
Router B: I would like this router to receive the signal from router A via ethernet and then forward the signal through wifi *NOT WORKING*

So far, I haven't been able to receive anything from router A or setup any type of wireless network.  Also, I receive an error upon trying to access LuCI via the web so this is not an option for preforming the configuration... it all needs to be done via command line.  If anyone has any advice it'd be much appreciated!

Thanks

Why not just use WDS?  I find it much simpler to use WDS bridge mode and have one big happy LAN for a home network.  All this "AP client" business is a PITA and for what?

I suppose I could do this!  Any advice for setting it up?

Hmm, so it seems that with WDS I'll lose half the bandwith for my wireless access point.  I can't do this because I'm receiving my internet source via one of my routers and the AP is far enough away that half won't cut it.  Also, the routers are side by side so not being able to access wireless on one is not a concern!

I'm not sure what you mean about "lose half the bandwidth".  If you are hooking up your clients via WIRE to the LAN ports on router#2, there is no loss.   The effect of losing half (actually more) bandwidth is when a single-radio repeater is serving also local WiFi clients.   Since you are simply using it as a point-to-point link you avoid this effect.

I used 2 WRT for long-distance backhaul all the time I just use a different SSID and key so those 2 WRT only talk with each other via WiFi not with clients.  The LAN ports on these backhaul units would then couple to other radios which provided client access.   Thus forming a 2-radio repeater, see?

Sounds good!  Any pointer as to how to set up the config files to do this?

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