WI-Fi bridging

[richdude]

Thought Id ask here as Macca seems to know all!!

Im trying to use a Draytek Vigor 2820n as a bridge from the standard Sky router at my dads. Want to connect the dray via WIFI to Sky to be able to use a CAT5 to connect my Sky plus box to router so I can have full on demand in my bedroom, plus better wifi signal for my iPad.

Its called WDS on the Draytek. Ive enabled it, fixed its IP to same range as Sky (192.168.0.1 sky - 192.168.0.99 Dray) Turned on WDS, used the same WPA2 password as the sky router. This allows my iphone to connect to Dray WIFI, which shows exactly the same details as when connect to Sky except the differnt router IP. But I get no internet through it.

Further research says I need to turn the DCHP server OFF, but when I do this I cannot connect to the Dray at all!? I went round and round in cirlces last night trying, and in the end decided just to have a vape and a couple of jager bombs (some one NEEDS to make a jager bomb flavoured juice BTW!!!)

Any ideas anyone?

[Sandra (aka Chillax)]

Bump for a techie, all above me ed

[maccafan]

Try this:



Refer to page 241 of the Vignor manual for more information on what they mean..

[matty198111]

Saw this and thought

Wifi, i know what that is
But then i was lost when it said bridging ???

My 8 year old knows more than me

[PeeKay]

I would not recommend WDS to anyone unless you have a secure backend first - and those tend to be business based.

The reason I do not recommend it is because it is not as secure as a pure bridge between the routers. This is what you should setup, using WPA-PSK as the security. Anything less is also crackable.

I have 3 routers in my house, 2 wirelessly connected to the main router (using 54G speeds only).

(OT tip for X-Box owners: Instead of paying out circa £50 on a network adapter for the X-Box, buy a cheap wireless router and bridge it to your main router. The X-Box then thinks it's connected over the wire, and is a happy bunny.)

Have used the 2800 series Draytek's in businesses for VPN access previously, and they are pretty good pieces of kit - you should ensure that you have the latest firmware on it too, as this can drastically improve the router's performance.

[richdude]

Macca, thats exactly what I was doing and where I was reading it from!!
PeeKay what would you recommend, using the routers I have? Putting in a cable would be hard work but is last resport, WIFI would be best!