{"id":652,"date":"2013-10-23T21:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blt.homenet.org\/wordpress\/?p=652"},"modified":"2013-10-23T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T04:01:33","slug":"repeater-bridge-is-now-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Repeater bridge is now setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to say that I just got a repeater bridge setup using DD-wrt on both routers. \u00a0In the garage and in one bedroom the wireless signal from the main router doesn&#8217;t come in very well (or not at all). \u00a0this is particularly troubling since I plan to use some old phones as IP webcams to watch my beer ferment whenever I finish my <a title=\"Fermentation Chamber \u2013 The Planning\" href=\"http:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/?p=589\" target=\"_blank\">fermentation chamber<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I read a lot of sites and watched several YouTube videos and failed many times. \u00a0Though I&#8217;m sure most sites were right I think the problem that I had was the encryption between the main router and the repeater router. Many blogs recommended getting the connection to work without without and then one that works setup the encryption.<\/p>\n<p>I did a similar thing as many sites but with a one twist. Rather that have the repeater router connect to the main router over the real wireless lan (wl0), I setup a virtual lan on the main router. This allowed for a few nice things. First, I spent a really long time trying to get it setup directly to the wl0, jumping straight into an AES+TKIP link, and could never get it to work. \u00a0Secondly, once I went this route \u00a0I could mess with the setup without impacting the normal network with a few exceptions. This also allowed me to do the setup without turning the normal wireless into an unencrypted link. \u00a0Also, now my bridge link is hidden so I should really have any thing else using this link.<\/p>\n<p>When I set this up I followed this <a title=\"YouTube Repeater Bridge Video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/OmM25Cbw-b0\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> video pretty extensively which for the changes of using a virtual lan on my main router the instructions are good. \u00a0When I got things connected I started with the AP_Bridge being visible and no encryption. \u00a0I then added the encryption and things worked. \u00a0I suppose I could have tried AES+TKIP, but I was happy with what I had working given that I spent a really long time prior to this. \u00a0Once that worked I hid the AP_Bridge. \u00a0To test things out I reset the Repeater_Bridge and it was able to connect just fine. \u00a0 \u00a0A quick check in the garage shows a strong signal from the repeater bridge and I should be set to go now.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Repeater_Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-653\" alt=\"Repeater_Bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Repeater_Bridge.jpg\" width=\"752\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Repeater_Bridge.jpg 752w, https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Repeater_Bridge-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Repeater_Bridge-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to say that I just got a repeater bridge setup using DD-wrt on both routers. \u00a0In the garage and in one bedroom the wireless signal from the main router doesn&#8217;t come in very well (or not at all). \u00a0this is particularly troubling since I plan to use some old phones as IP webcams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[115,75,129,130,132,131],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","tag-bridge","tag-dd-wrt","tag-repeater","tag-repeater-bridge","tag-virtual-lan","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bt.beerprojects.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}