How to Setup DD-WRT Dual-Band Repeater Bridge (Extend the Range of WiFi)
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1-Please install and use DD-WRT firmware (or any other firmware) on your wireless router at your own risk and beware doing this might void the manufacturer's warranty and if something goes wrong there is a chance to permanently damage and brick your wireless router.
Please attempt any changes to your network or wireless router at your own risk. I do not accept any responsibility or liability for any loss or damage of whatever nature (direct, indirect, consequential, or other) which may arise as a result of your use of the information in this video. This video is for educational purposes only.
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Thanks man, you saved me alot of headache. I recently found myself in a financial situation where I cant afford a cheap wifi extender but I had an old r6300v2 router laying around that I wasn't using and you saved me. so thank you very much your videos are very knowledgeable and they helped me learn how to convert my router into a repeater bridge
You're very welcome, glad to hear that you liked it 😃👍
Holy cow! After hours of nearly pulling my hair out and even following your previous video I was about to give up on my r7000. Your instructions here worked a charm. Thanks so much.
1:07 😜🤪, ok, was watching the DD-WRT repeater vid and you said to watch this video first before the DD-WRT repeater video.
Now that I’m here watching this video….you just said to watch the “OTHER” video before watching this one🤦🏼
I’m getting whiplash from which vid to watch first now 🤣🤣
So, this vid on my lollipop tablet, and the other on my phone…so I’m watching them BOTH at the same time. Problem solved 🙃
Cheers✌🏻
LOL, glad problem was solved :-)
Thank you very much. I've been looking for a video that explains the dual band on dd-wrt and finally have one exist.
My pleasure! I'm glad you found this video useful :-)
Exactly! 😁 Ty Beyhor!
I just want to say this video did the trick and finally got my repeater set up to work. Thank you very much and much appreciated.
I followed along on your video and it worked first try for me. Thanks for making me feel like a wizard!
Glad to hear that, thanks 👍😀
Behfor, I completely agree with the point you made at the end of the video. When it comes to establishing wireless bridges, for the sake of extending a network, the band of radio frequencies or associated channels utilized for the bridge, should not be re-used for AP-Client communications. This avoids unnecessary interference issues, and a multitude of problems, that would otherwise result.
Another option to accomplish the bridging would be via ethernet backhaul. I’ve seen a number of systems on the market, which purport to use this as a wired option, when wireless just doesn’t work. Can you speak on this subject?
Your videos are entertaining, straight-forward, and easy to follow. Keep up the good work! 😊
Thank you so much, I'm very glad you like the videos! I've already mentioned that we can use Ethernet Backhaul when we set up Asus Aimesh System (ruclips.net/video/jPuuxkHTXMo/видео.html) I also tested that in another video (ruclips.net/video/5sagIw6_ofE/видео.html). I personally always prefer to run a cable between the routers, because that is the most reliable connection and this way I can dedicate the wireless networks for the clients only, however sometimes running a cable is not easy or even possible, then I would consider a repeater/ repeater bridge! Thanks so much again :-)
WLANs use direct sequence spread spectrum technology built to handle such intra-band interference, it works well for home networks with b/w less than 100Mbps -- sharing the same 2.4GHz band should not be a problem.
Thank you Behfor, even though a couple of years old, your instructions still work!
Glad to help
You are great! :) I finally found a useful channel, which asks the same questions as me, at this stage of my life I am the victim of a strange obsession with network devices! :) Congratulations on the channel and a greeting from Italy!
What a great video! Thanks so much for explaining how to use 2.4 and 5 GHz to extend the range of my WiFi
You're very welcome! Glad you liked it! Thanks!
Thank you so much! I had netgear R7000 which I wanted to use as secondary. the primary router is Nokia router (provided by Airtel Xstream Fiber ISP). It doesn't have WDS, nor I can use it as base station as specified by netgear (the netgear to netgear repeater protocol). Finally decided to flash DD WRT and then this video.. voila!!
I'm very glad to hear this video was useful for you, thanks 👍
Excellent tutorial! Funny expressions! A novice like myself was able to configure a DBRB, although it took me all day but that's because of my own inabilities! :) Dhanyawaad!
Thanks so much! I'm very glad you liked this video and found it useful :-)
Many thanks to you, Behfor, for this great tutorial. This was the only video that helped me setup my DD-WRT flashed D-LINK DIR-810L (A1) dual band router. Initially, I just wanted a repeater bridge configuration, but I liked your idea to use the 2.4 GHz band for wireless connection of clients and the 5 GHz band for cable connection of clients. Kudos for the brilliant tip and best of luck to you! Thumbs up and sudscription to your channel :-)
Thank you so much! I'm very glad you liked my videos and also for subscribing! Cheers 😀👍
Excellent tutorial! Thank you for this. My network is much better now using the wireless bridge.
Great to hear! :-)
Finally managed ti setup my Netgear R7000 to repeat WiFi from my iPhone. Thanks a bunch 😊
You're very welcome 😁
Great video sir! Only one I found that actually worked! Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much! I'm glad it was helpful for you :-)
Thank you so much. I was about to rip the last of my hair out. If I ever meet you I'll buy you lunch.
Glad you liked it. thanks :-)
@@Behfor a few questions since I'm just learning. Would speeds be better to Bridge 2.4 and AP 5.0 or Bridge 5.0 and AP 2.4? Or Bridge 5.0, AP 2.4 and VAP 5.0?
Thank you very much for this! Your videos are very useful and fun to watch. My problem: I want to extend (repeat?) the Wi-Fi network but NOT create another SSID. Users shoud change from one AP to the other without having to connect to a different network. Is it possible? I see DD-WRT has an AP mode, but you used the traditional router mode.
Thank you very much. Your tutorial is much more effective than the DD-WRT wiki procedure on which it’s based. The wiki procedure is very poorly written.
Thank you for the video. I knew I was doing something wrong with my configuration.
Excellent video !!!
Thanks!
Hello Nice Tutorial,
I did the same using the 2.4G channel while keeping the 5G channel as AP.
Connection works smoothly for wired connections but I am not able to connect to the 5G network on the second router
it is always saying "Couldn't connect to network"
did you find what was causing issue ? I am having same issue
Perfect!!! This video helps me to configure my dual band router, Thank you so much!!!
You're very welcome :-)
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@Zyaire Fisher yea, have been watching on flixzone} for months myself :)
tkz man, great tutorial u save my life :)
Glad you like it, cheers 👍
Very cool tutorial . Thank you
gracias crack, me ayudó un montonazo este tutorial! saludos desde ARG
Nice work fella :D
Thanks, glad you liked it :-)
Why is your channel so small? You make great videos! Keep it up.
Good question! Thanks!
I'm not sure that the "Repeter Bridge" mode on the secondary device (the DD-wrt) to connect it to the primary router via WiFi would work for any primary router brand.
Brand has nothing to do with this. You should be able to connect it to any brands. They main router and repeater should just both support the same standard 802.11WiFi.
Those 5ghz repeaters are awesome
You get the maximum download speeds
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Yes I understand how works a network, IP adress, gateway, router etc but I save 1 or hours to configure if I do myself with all mistakes I'll will done :-p
However it's right this configuration is not easy at all!
Just a question. So I’m getting another router to expand the 5G wifi coverage in my townhome. The modems are going to be 1 floor apart approx 20 Meters away from each other., but I only want to use 5G for extra speed. My question is I’m obviously going to use the 5G physical interfaces on the routers to create the bridge repeater which will need to be set with identical SSID, channels, and settings ect right? So When I create a new virtual 5G interface on the secondary router, Do I set that up with the same channel settings ect as the 5G interrouter connection to expand that 5G network further? Or should I be choosing different channels, settings, with a new SSID name to mitigate interference? I just want to make sure im not setting something up that is gonna jam eachother. Thanks!
Great video
Quick question... how do you connect wirelessly to the second router? Do you see the second router's ssid in the available wireless devices list in windows, for example? That's what I want. I want to have to explicitly log into the second router, or not.
THANK YOU!!!
You bet!!!
To add you may not need to set up virtual interface if you want the secondary router as a repeater. Instead, set whichever radio to client bridge mode first and the other radio to AP mode with exactly same ssid however the moment you set the other radio to client bridge and completed the client bridge set up and hit save it will automatically write the ssid name on the radio set as AP. All other parameters need to match that of the primary router. I have been playing and expirementing many builds on dd-wrt for 3 days on my dual band netgear wndr3400 N600 trying to find a solution (while also thinking I might have messed around some settings or the dd-wrt build itself) and I found none of them can repeat the signal without having to create a virtual interface until I tried leaving the other one as AP and the other as client bridge and viola it works as intended and a wireless AP is broadcasting as a repeater just like the primary without having to log in again and can connect seamlessly when in range without dropping a connection. I am currently on build 40559.
Reading this made a few things click, and I got everything up and working. Thanks!
thanks for helping
Hi there, it was very useful and interesting tutorial video. Keep it up. Thnx
How to change passwords on both main router and repater router? What are the order to change the passwords without having isuses like reset or complit reinstall settings on repeater router.
Perfect. I have a Linksys EA6700 dual band but, my DD-WRT appears olde version. I have: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (02/19/14) std (SVN revision 23598M) and i can see that is diferent at your version. What version do you have and can you help me to do an upgrade please. thanks
Thank you very much. I did it successfully but there is just one problem that for a minute or two I don't have internet while using the WiFi. Did I do anything wrong? Call drops are killing me.
Awesome tutorial, I setup successfully & it's working fine. Now how can I login back into my dd-wrt router? Which ip address or do I have to hard reset again?
Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked this video. You should use the new IP address to login back to the secondary router, no need to hard reset.
@@Behfor You are the best :)
Excellent tutorial!
May I ask if it is possible to extend/repeat a RADIUS wireless connection with the router?
If I understood correctly, the authentication in this type of connection opens a browser page for the user to input the credentials.
Somehow the router doesn't know how to redirect this web page...
I suppose one way, would be to use a computer to connect and authenticate wirelessly and then use the ethernet port to share this connection with the router.
Is it possible to use just the router between the RADIUS wifi and the computers?
Thank you
Great video, thank you!!! One question... I connected everything up and it was working perfectly until I plugged a switch into the LAN port of the secondary router. Suddenly, my internet connection was lost, my IP address was no longer in the same network, and I couldn't log back into the router on 192.168.1.2 I can easily re-setup but any reason why the switch connection would throw the network so out of whack so I can avoid it happening again???
Question ,I have Linksys 1900Ac with dd wrt the choices are AP, Client, ClientBridge (routed), WDS station, WDS station (Microtik), and WDS AP. I have a Bell 4000 modem (Sagemcom Pack Fast 5689) I would like to wirelessly extend wifi and also connect a computer, I can't find any info on these wireless modes, a video would be appreciated as your videos are very clear! thx.
Hi there. Thanks for the good explanation, but i have got a question. My TP-Link router does not have the option "repeater bridge". I only have the following options:
AP
Client
Client Bridge (Routed)
Adhoc
WDS Station
WDS Station (Mikrotik)
WDS AP
Which do i have to choose and is it still possible?
And by the way, another Question. Is it possible to have the WLAN Router(lets call it SecondaryRouter) to connect via EAP connection to another WLAN Router(PrimaryRouter), but to make the SecondaryRouter to create his own WLAN via WPA2? Is that mode possible? I am searching information in the internet for several hours, but i dont find any option that will work.
Thanks for your help!
Best regards!
I tried setting up a dual band repeater router using TP-Link C9 v3 and cannot get clients to connect on the VAPs using WPA2 authentication. If I remove the authentication, then the clients connect. Have you heard of this issue? Funny thing is that using the repeater bridge, then all clients connect using WPA2 authentication.
After using Bridged mode for several weeks now I am incredibly frustrated because the connection is so unstable. I get frequent drop outs every day whereby the router in bridged mode (Negear r7000) appears to just get dropped by the host router. I've set its mac address on the host router to assign it a fixed IP but this doesn't seem to help. Most of the time it reconnects by itself within 5-10 minutes but sometimes i doesn't and i need to restart both routers to get it working again.Any ideas??
Are you Greek by any chance? I like the funny personality
Thanks, no I'm not.
haha
Thanks for the guide. Just wondering if it is ok to use same SSID for all?
Can I use the same name for the secondary ssd as the name from the primary ssd.... can they have the same name instead of bein room one and room two???? seems that when I try that the system fails. and I wanted to have like a seamless transition but does not look like is possible.
I’m using Asus AiMesh. It drops a connection when it switches between the two routers, 10 long seconds. Apparently it’s an issue. It’s annoying when doing Skype and other apps. Does this solution work better when Moving around the house? Thanks.
When I set up my Aimesh system I had a very good Roaming experience (after I used the roaming assistant option) as you can see in this video: ruclips.net/video/qusVMXQC9zU/видео.html . In my experience the AiMesh roaming was even better than the DD-WRT! Overall to improve the roaming experience I would make sure the routers are not too close or too far from each other. That is very important. Thanks.
I have A ASUS AIMESH SYSTEM RUNNING WITH 2 nodes I want to extend node wifi with a old net gear router
Can you do that with a with a node mode router ?
Great. Curious if you will upgrade to WIFI6 and if you will reuse your AC68U as a repeater bridge with new WIFI6 as primary router.
If I upgrade my WiFi system, that's exactly what I will do. I mean I won't necessarily use the AC68U as a repeater, but maybe as a mesh node. Thanks!
Why did you choose DD-WRT over MerlinWRT? Does it have extra benefits?
Well, Merlin is a very good firmware, but it is only available for a some Asus routers. DD-WRT on the other hand is available for many more routers including other brands. I would use Merlin for everyday use, but in case it doesn't have a feature that I need then I would switch to DD-WRT, which has some features that Merlin doesn't have. I installed the DD-WRT on this router to try the repeater bridge on a Dual-Band DD-WRT router. Thanks!
I did everything in the video and i still don't have internet capabilities from the second router
Me too.....I tried 3 different videos. I have a Netgear WNDR3400
Hi. I use a TP-Link archer C7 with DD-WRT but I don't have the Repeater or Repeater Bridge option, I have WDS Station and WDS AP instead. How do I proceed to create my Repeater Bridge?
If you don't have the repeater bridge option you might have the client bridge option that can be used instead
I have latest firmware with ddwrt 2021 build
On archer c7 ac1750 v4 and v2 models
I am trying to get v2 to be a wireless access point and I tried to set it to WDS AP mode; but its not syncing with the v4
Am I doing something wrong? I would like to know what I did wrong?
Is there any way, where i can use router as reapeater and normal mode same time. My ddwrt router is connected with main router with wan, and there is another internet connection which i want to extend with repeater mode.
I have AT&T WiFi they set up the router broadband ARRIS BGW210-700. However my WiFi doesn’t reach my house from my office which is about 400 yards apart. The DD-WRT pre flashed router I found on eBay several for cheap like $20-$50. Can I get one of these preflashed DD-WRT routers and connect to my network? How will I configure that? I would like to extend my WiFi and if possible set up a VPN DD-WRT can I do both? Will I need to be running Linux to configure the DD-WRT?
If I assign a different SSID for 5 GHz AP and connect few client device in my home, will these be in a different network than the primary router? Can I keep the same SSID name for the 5GHz AP so that the client can jump to 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz based on the best signal available?
What do you set the wireless mode to if your primary router is 802.11ac?
The AC is only for the 5GHz band, and the 2.4 GHz is N. So if you are connecting the repeater to the 2.4 GHz radio of the primary router you would choose N.
connection:
LAN is LAN
its better for open vpn or LAN to WAN ??
because i have connected to:
main router to dd wrt
LAN---> WAN
its safe to connect LAN to LAN
or should i stay as is
How do I access my primary router to make changes after setup? It feels like ive locked myself out.
You might of assigned the secondary router with the same ip address as the primary. Re-check which ip address you assigned the repeater as, make sure its different than your primary.
hey do u have the links to the trx file for the ddwrt asus rt-ac68u ? also what bin file did you use? I used two of the most recent builds with no luck. Connects but everything is no internet. Read online that we have to use specific builds that doesnt have bugs. Thanks.
i like the person love that do. you love this. I see 4 today, my problen is the # 1 camara loss image .or connection. all very intersting. i go to work in this. thank appreciate . Esteban
Great video. so i have an archer c7, ddwrt doesnt have repeater bridge as an option. any idea how or why that would be
If it has "client bridge (routed)", it's the same thing as repeater bridge, thanks.
Nice
Hi Beh4,
In your other video (not this one)
I have all my configuration done following your instructions.
I get the ping (run) and then open a web page, it appears (ie. it works) then I after soon I open another page (say after 30 seconds), it stops with no connection.
I am able to see my wifi connection (like "room2")
Looking at the Ping/Run, I see it connects (ie 'reply from 8.8.8.8 -t), then "destination net unreachable".
Any helpful advice?
(your older video version of this one)
Hello. Please help me or my brain will explode. I have a main 4g/5g router that use open wrt and a spare dd wrt router in house. I want the dd wrt to use it as a extender for wifi and lan. Can you do a video or help me with the right settings? Cheers
Hi, i think this video ( and maybe the first version) is exactly what you need, it doesn't matter what the primary router is, it could be any brand using any firmware (openwrt or something else). As long as you have a secondary router running ddwrt you should be able to use this video to setup a wifi extender / repeater. Good luck 👍
@@Behfori see, my firmware it's newer then yours. Which one i need to choose from?
AP
AP (WDS)
Station
Station Bridge (Routed)
Station (WDS)
Station (Mikrotik WDS)
@@Behfori see, my firmware it's newer then yours. Which one i need to choose from?
AP
AP (WDS)
Station
Station Bridge (Routed)
Station (WDS)
Station (Mikrotik WDS)
Doesnt work in netgear wn2000v2
I followed this to a T. how do I access the GUI of my Linkseys WRT54G running (DD-WRT Broadcom Generic - K2.4 - Micro) 192.168.1.2 takes me to nowhere and 192.168.1.1 takes me to my main router
you would have to plug directly into the router, lan 1 port since both of them have the same ip gui being 192.168.1.1
Can't get Netgear R8000 to work.
Behor, my just downloaded latest version for my router v3.0 r43136 has no repeater bridge option. Only client bridge(routed) - this still works the same way? WDS seems to have overtaken this. But my main modem router cannot do WDS.
Client bridge (routed) is the same as repeater bridge. The routers with Atheros processors are like that 👍
@@Behfor so do everything same.. sub client bridge(routed) ok.
Up and running! - So anyone reading - client Bridge (routed) is the same as repeater bridge in the video :)
3:59
Router user name: admin
Router password: admin
Hi there, my question is, it's not necessarily on secondary router set in SSID option same as primary?? I mean can we set different name on 2.5 and 5 channel as ssid?? Right??
Anyone have any idea why my router keeps bootlooping after successfully setting up a repeater bridge? I need help. 😭😭
It worked when I finished but kept rebooting after I powered it down and turning it on.