So you may experience some limitations of wireless repeater mode, and this is one of them.Īt that time, wireless repeat mode has not been active in bridging mode.
Wireless repeater mode also groups local clients into a subnet - a potential feature for privacy and routing in the LAN, depending on your needs.īecause the wireless repeater mode is a new feature during the time of the author's writing, it is still in beta. During the test, we successfully repeated a host AP with a signal strength of only 9% using the DD-WRT router - so low that the laptop cannot detect the host AP. In essence, you will use the wireless repeater mode to broadcast the signal too weak to wireless clients - of course, assuming that the DD-WRT router can still receive the host AP. Unlike the WDS, DD-WRT routers can receive and redistribute wireless signals from an AP of the same type. To get there, we will use the V24 beta firmware, when a DD-WRT router can be set up as a wireless repeater. And what should you do in such a case? In this section, I will show you how to set up a wireless repeater. In the real world, you probably only have one router that can run DD-WRT. And to get the best results, each router needs to have the same model running the same software.
The reason is because, in order to promote its strengths, each router in your network must support WDS. Setting up a WDS was introduced in the previous sections of this series.
However, that day has passed, now we can expand the scope of the network with many other methods. Previously, when you wanted to expand the scope of a wireless access point, you had to set up a WDS (wireless distribution system), along with two or more routers supporting WDS.
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