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[biladigital]

I have a modem/router/WirelessAP unit on one side of the house, and the need has arisen to have a wired switch on the other side of the house, so I got this DIR-835.

The switch aspect works great. I just changed the network address to 192.168.0.2 and switched off the DHCP and i have no problems connecting via the switch.

My problem is wireless. I would like to have it such that the same wireless network broadcast from my original router was repeated from this new one. But i would settle for 2 different wireless network SSID's that worked .  Right now when i connect to the DIR-835 my phone gets IP 192.168.1.5 (?), no SM and a gateway that isnt on my network 192.168.1.1.

Because DHCP is off, i have no idea how wireless devices get addressed, but this is obviously wrong.

Any help would be appreciated.

[FurryNutz]

Link>Welcome!

• What Hardware version is your router? Look at sticker under router.
• Link>What Firmware version is currently loaded? Found on the routers web page under status.
• What region are you located?

Pleease review this:
Bridge Mode vs Relay vs Acess Point (AP) / Routers vs Dedicated Acess Points (AP)

[biladigital]

Thanks for the reply!

Hw version A1
Fw 1.02
Region? Canada...

I understand from reading that post that making this router a bridge isn't going to happen. Does that mean making it it's own wireless network is not possible as well?

I used these instructions and I'm not getting the desired effects.

Thanks

[FurryNutz]

If you follow the Turning a Router into an AP link in that article, you should be able to create a 2ndary AP along with the main host routers Wifi. You can use the same SSID and PW however just make sure the channels being used on each device is different, so if your main host router is on channel 11, set the 835 to chl 1.

Be sure to use only the LAN ports on the back, not the WAN port. It's not needed.