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[Vaere]

Ok.. I believe I am missing something here but will ask anyways.  How can i use this unit as an AP.
Bought a Netgear 3700 because it was Open source (bah.. not fully supported, but getting a 825B is not an option, will never buy another after the A support) .

I want to set this unit up remotely upstairs, and use it as a bridge / AP without wires.  But cant figure out how to connect to the netgear for the love of me.  Dont even know if its possible to be honest.

Dont want to run wires from the netgear for this unit, just want it to be a repeater / AP / Hub for local machines for the Ether ports.

[user11]

only way is to setup the netgear as a WDS client or WDS repeater and the 825 will be the gateway.

[Vaere]

Doh, was afraid so.  This box will never be primary anything for me again. Not the gateway.   Basicly just wanted to be able to plug a computer in upstairs as it didnt have WiFi.   Guess I will just go buy a good N 5ghz card n ditch this box totaly. 

Total waste

[dividebyzero]

I'm working as patiently as possible at this and no luck.  I don't care how the 825 connects to my AP/client/whatever.  i just need it to do it.

I have a buffalo whr-g125 with dd-wrt.  I'm new to the whole thing but I seem to have the WDS set up on the dd-wrt box and it can see the dlink box but nothing connects.

Also in the dlink logs I have primary: "unlock AP setup" and "client: unlock AP setup" (i flushed the log to try to see new events easier so i don't have what order they appeared) but there's not connection.

I try the sitesurvey in the dd-wrt and click connect to my dlink box and it says successfully connected to that network as a client.  Ok great, but there's nothing to show for it.

I just want to have the dd-wrt box connect to the dlink box wirelessly and plug an xbox into it.

I'm tempted to just shell out the money for the wireless adaptor that microsoft sells and be done with it.

I went through the original setup instructions on the dd-wrt website and got all the way to one of the last steps where you set up routing on the host router and lo and behold, it doesn't support LAN in the advanced routing setup.  Otherwise I'd already be watching some movies on the xbox already.

Anything will be helpful.  Can this box connect to a bridge/ap/repeater at all?  I see all these names and I'm not even sure which one I need.  Which ever one the dlink can support I can get the dd-wrt box to become that.

Thank you for your help...  anyone's help.  I've searched this forum, the dd-wrt forum, google.  It's a mess and I've been at it for 8 hours straight.

[user11]

Don't know DD-WRT, you will need to consult their forums for support. My guess is dd-wrt WDS doesnt work with WPA/WPA2, will only work with WEP. Best setting in your case is WDS client mode. Not sure what else to add, try these steps then ask dd-wrt folks.

[lotacus]

wpa tkip it what needs be used, but I am thinking that a lot of ddwrt stuff for this router are broken anyway.

[FurryNutz]

Bridge Mode vs Relay vs Acess Point (AP) / Routers vs Dedicated Acess Points (AP)

Turning a router into an AP.