Many thanks David. Having tried - and read - many tutorials and couldn’t get the config to properly work, this did the trick. Really appreciate it as OpenWRT - I find - is difficult to master. I’m sure it ultimately just requires loads of practice, but thanks to you I got there in the end. A simple and detailed step-by-step process which you explain clearly.
Under Network-Firewall menu you should have ticked lan-wan zone (under masquerading) You left it for wan-accept then it wouldn't apply lan-bridge-wan rules. Thank you for your tutorial which was very useful for me. I finally got it to work with your help.
Simply aweome. Saved me from further frustration. Have been trying to make it work since past few days without any success. Subscribed and liked your video 😀 Keep up the great work
I really hate finding this kind of thing as a video when an article would be so much easier to follow along with (and not need me to put a pair of headphones on!). But honestly: for the medium, this was a really good video. It helped me get a repeater set up in almost exactly the way you described, and gave me the confidence to set up a slightly-different OpenWrt device based only on the documentation afterwards. So: thanks!
Please :) can you make an article explaining how to do this in a openwrt 2023 :) I am not finding all the options that were clicked by David... maybe because I am using a Dap1325
Fantastic tutorial, I missed selecting lan for the firewall zone of the wireless connection the first time through, but a second pass and I got everything set up perfectly. Thank you!
Sorry about the audio. I didn't have the best equipment and now my PC has died 🙄 Glad it helped though. I'm hoping to get some new stuff and redo it. The intro is also complete turd 😂😂
@@davidsladdin6270 you can remove background noise with equalizer apo, this can be done by downloading reaper's vst plugins. You can find a tutorial online If you are recording with obs, it's better to set the plugin on obs. There are tutorials online for that too It's what I do, it's decent audio quality for me
Thanks for the demo, David. I experienced a small issue, but I believe that it is related specifically to my router model - TP-Link TL-WR841ND V10. Once I created the bridge interface, I lost access to the GUI of the router and couldn't create the wireless network. So creating the wireless network first helped in my case.
Thanks for this tutorial, spent huge amount of time figuring out why Relay bridge isn't showing up in interfaces... when the only thing i needed to do was rebooting xD
This is great. I wasted 2 hours yesterday trying to get the thing to work. Only step I had to take was adding the WWAN interface to the WLAN firewall zone since this was not done automatically after installing the relayd package for me. Cheers!
Hi Ywaarde! Thanks for the comment. So glad it helped you get it working! The colour of the networks helps you know which ones are linked and I got this wrong in the beginning too.
many thanks!! I managed to work it out!. couple things I needed to add. first for some reason needed to manually add dns 8.8.8.8 and also, to avoid collision with my home 192.168.1.1, I used 192.168.10.1 for the eth0 one initially . again - many thanks for the tutorial.
i hope you're still active here, got a question i'm a complete beginner with this, and although technically inclined, networking is an enigma to me, i'll never understand it :D it seems they have changed the interface you used at 8:00. The "Physical Settings" tab doesn't exist anymore. apparently they moved it to a new tab "devices" under the interfaces menu, but i have absolutely no idea what to do there to disable the bridge interface like you did. tried hitting "reset" on the lan bridge interface that was listed there, but the interface entry still stated "br-lan" in its title, unlike the "eth0" seen at 8:35. do you know how to do this in the new openwrt versions?
You could always try 19.07 for now. I'll have a look at the latest version if I get time and make a new video. I really enjoyed making this one in lockdown!
That is the best tutorial so far I find on youtube. Great job. Dummy like me spend hours to configure it but with this tutorial.. takes only but only 5 mins. Thank you so much. All other tutorial I find had always something missing . some of them even wont say you need to download "relayd" waste of time.. but this one is platinium tutorial. I use a/n device for bridge connection and bng for client.. hope no network security issue etc. 😁
Hi David Sladdin First I would like to thank for your very awesome tutorial. I bought D-Link DIR-2660 and had been trying to install and configure OpenWRT as Repeater / Extender mode for two days, but all in vain till I found your video tutorial. I could not connect to other Wifi router and the "Associated Stations" did not show up. Its because, to connect it I have to provide Username as wel as Password. I request in honor to provide solution to this problem.. I have never ever subscribed any channel, but your's is the first one that I am going to subscribe.. Hoping to hear form you soon. Regards and many thanks.. Zeb Khan
are the packages relayd luci-proto-relay necessary for wds repeater (with openwrt 21) to bridge between lan and wwan with wds client of remote lan ? can you just use only lan ? and no wwan dhcp ip necessary
Hey David, Thanks for putting this together. Can you tell me if it's possible to change the MAC address of the radio facing the upstream AP? In your example this is radio1 (the 802.11an interface). My use case is as follows: The AP I wish to extend requires interactive payment and rather than passphrase, authentication is done with client MAC address. I will need to first connect to AP with my phone or notebook, enter my payment info, then spoof that MAC address on the radio1 so that the repeater will connect. Alternately I could change the MAC on my notebook to match the MAC of radio1 while authenticating. Does openwrt expose the MAC address of the radios or allow user to change them?
@@grr1972 Hi Greg! Thanks for the comment. I’d certainly believe this to be a possibility. I’m currently away from home but will have a look at the options when I return!
Hi David , First of all thank you for this video , much appreciated. Quick question ; I have the TP-LINK RE650 dual band extender , is it possible to repeat both frequencies ?
Yes you can but some devices might not switch automatically as the setup you describe is more of a mesh technology. Try putting them on different channels and then at least you can see which network the devices connect to depending on where they are.
Thanks for the video. Question, with this setup, if the main hotspot you are repeating or extending somehow restarts and changes its channel, will the openwrt able to reconnect? Because I have another slightly different setup that works, but it locks to the channel and upon hotspot changes its channel, the openwrt not able to pick up without whole setup again.
Thanks for this tutorial. But after all configurations, i can't access my openwrrt repeater, unless I set an IP on the network card and connect via cable. How could I access the device via the main router's network IP?
A few people have mentioned this issue. Which router are you using? Might be an issue with firewall. Have you checked those settings? You could turn the firewall off (temporarily) to test this theory.
I followed all the steps and noticed that after connect, the dhcp from the main firewall was being received by the device but the traffic was not being routed back. I went to router settings and under LAN -> WAN i enabled Masquerading. After everything was working fine.
Hi, I love your channel. i have a little problem I have tried to create the repeater but I can't get the devices to see each other for example if I want to send some video (for example) from router 2 (repeater) to router 1 (main) these are not found In router 2 I have openwrt to the latest version and if I disable the dhcp of this mo I have internet. please help
Thank you. Did my head in yesterday on a tplink archer c60. But found you video and working. The only thing is I can't log in via WiFi to the openwrt router. I know the IP address but times out. Connect a cable and change IP setting on ethernet and can connect. Any food for thought? Got me stumped lol
I had this the other day actually. Turned out the IP address logged in DHCP for OpenWrt on my main router was for one of the WiFi interfaces being broadcast (the extender interface). I ended up finding it by doing an IP scan and then set the IP static instead of being on DHCP. This way I always know what the IP will be. Could this be your issue too?
@@davidsladdin6270 Hey David, it’s a great tutorial and I managed to get everything working. But I can’t access my repeater interface anymore, even Wan address shown in “Interfaces” tab doesn’t work. How do I setup static IP for it? Should I change it in “interfaces” “WWAN” static ip? Could you explain in detail, button to button please. Because I’m a total noob at this things. Thank you
@@daniyarassylbekov1532 I can take a look with you if you'd prefer? Are all the interfaces showing the same colour so you know they're in the same firewall grouping?
@@davidsladdin6270 Hi David, am having the same issue and really need some assistance. For me changing the IP to a static 192.168.0.x range doesn't work as i end up literally losing the access as it shifts to something but no idea what, especially not the static i give.
Hi thanks for this tutorial. I followed you till I started scanning for wifi networks. It cannot find any wifi network. The "Starting wireless scan" won't just end. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Hi David, first of all thank you for this tutorial. I'm tried to follow this guide on Asus WL-500gP V2 router with OpenWRT version 19.7. Problem is or it's look like that I can't had two wireless radio enabled at one time, I mean first is client to my primary router and secound will be a new access point. But it's not working. Where can be a problem?
Hi Jan, I had the same problem... follow instructions but after you enable the second radio go back to the interfaces screen and correct the settings there as per the video. It wipes your settings when you enable the second radio. Hope this makes some sense. 😆
So, get one radio working and all setup and then do a backup (in case of a problem). Then add another radio but before hitting save, head to the Interface screen and add the new wirless to the firewall group and check the static address and DNS settings. I'm going to try do another video showing this shortly but my PC isn't working atm.
@@davidsladdin6270 Ok, I tried this step by step. Removed Access point radio. Save and Apply. Did a backup. Add a new radio (Access point), but didn't hit Save and Apply (Interface has 7 pending changes). Then went to Interface section. Add new interface (DHCP client) and same Firewall settings as the previous one. Save and Apply in interface section. Then switch back to Wireless section but same problem as before. I don't know what I'm doing wrong? Where exactly can I check the static address and DNS settings? Thx David.
Thanks very much. I have been trying to setup this type of relay for a long time, but all the tutorials had something wrong. This one worked perfectly first time. Just 1 question: is it possible to relay the SAME SSID?
I can connect to the internet via a wired connection, but can't access the internet via Access Point WiFi. How to fix it?. All settings are correct, I can't even ping to the gateway from the laptop once connected to the Access Point WiFi.
I connect the Openwrt router to the internet and the ping command in the router does work. But the connection from the Openwrt router does not have internet access. I mean when I connect my laptop to the router It has no internet connection. But when I connect the laptop to the Openwrt router 'with the cable' is has an internet connection for the laptop. In the other words, the Openwrt router will give the internet from the main modem/router wirelessly just with a cable but unable to give that connection through wifi. I follow every rule you tolled us. What should I do to have an internet connection through wifi?
With the 23.05 Openwrt firmware i got error on installing relayd + the luci package. Afterwards Luci "Desktop" didnt start up. Had to ssh into and then reboot to new with: "firstboot" Could then install relayd again, made reboot and then installed the luci relayd package to have a stable run
NETGEAR EX6150 V2 - I worked on this for two days, and boiled it down to no matter what I did, even fresh virgin install, if I configured both a client and a master, I ended up only with a client radio, no power coming from the master.... UNTIL - I changed the two radios to 20mhz instead of 40 or 80 (default), then it all came together :) I also found that, even though right now as proof this works I downgraded to OpenWrt 19.07.4 to get close to what is demoed in this video, the EX6150 v2 cant be upgraded beyond 21.02.5 If you go beyond that then when you create a wifi interface, SCAN will not work anymore nor will the new graphic the displays nearby wifi that also uses scan.
I am unable to update the list. it's asking to check the connection. I use PPPoE with a username and password issued by ISP on my main router. Do I need to change from DHCP Client to PPoE and add those credentials in repeater?
After I connect to my wireless network, I am no longer able to access the LUA configuration Interface. If I can, it is only for a split second, and them it times out with the 'Unable to Connect' screen. Do you know why this might be? Link lights are still on.
Open a command prompt (if on Windows) or terminal on Linux/Mac and type arp -a and then enter. Try the various IP addresses that come up in your range. It might be on more than 1 address. You can use your main router to see connected devices and their IP addresses as an alternative. Let me know how you get on.
Hi David, my devices are not receiving IP address, I have checked the main router DHCP is enabled and working fine when connecting via it but the extender router (AP) keeps on loosing configurations like LAN bridge get enabled, the wireless network SSID also losses the network 'lan' it revert back to unspecified. Any pointers?
@@davidsladdin6270 It is now working, I had to reset my router and do it again some settings did not reset initially, my bad, thank you very much for your video it was helpful! thumbs up!!
Not working for me :( followed every step. Trying to connect EE wifi dongle to my openwrt router via wifi and create another wifi whilst also being able to use the Ethernet port to connect a cctv NVR to give that internet access
Hi George, sorry to hear that it didn’t work. Which router are you using OpenWRT on? I don’t mind having a look with you at some point, I like a challenge!
@@alessandroaiezza4339 on my TPLink WR841N I went to Network->Firewall->Traffic Rules and added a rule to allow dhcp-renew from the lan for port 68 to 'Any zone' with the destination address as the main router's address and this finally worked!!!!! thanks OP for the video
Hi, awesome tutorial. I followed the instructions and the dhcp don't seems to work. I use a Lenovo Y1 router. So you have any idea? I change the rules in the firewall with no success.
Useless as the 21.x version branch has changed just every setting, nothing is the same as what is shown in the video, especially the crucial part about LAN interfaces.
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Thumbs up. Out of several tutorials that I watched and tried to follow, this is the only one that worked. The stepwise approach really helped. Thanks
same here
Many thanks David. Having tried - and read - many tutorials and couldn’t get the config to properly work, this did the trick. Really appreciate it as OpenWRT - I find - is difficult to master. I’m sure it ultimately just requires loads of practice, but thanks to you I got there in the end. A simple and detailed step-by-step process which you explain clearly.
Thank you so much! I've spent my entire afternoon trying to do exactly this, but only could do it after watching your video.
Cheers Gustavo! I will do better videos moving forward, you’ve made my day! 😀
Under Network-Firewall menu you should have ticked lan-wan zone (under masquerading)
You left it for wan-accept then it wouldn't apply lan-bridge-wan rules.
Thank you for your tutorial which was very useful for me. I finally got it to work with your help.
Thanks for this information. It didn't work for me without the tick. It said it was retrieving an IP address, but it never did.✌👍
Simply aweome. Saved me from further frustration. Have been trying to make it work since past few days without any success. Subscribed and liked your video 😀 Keep up the great work
I really hate finding this kind of thing as a video when an article would be so much easier to follow along with (and not need me to put a pair of headphones on!). But honestly: for the medium, this was a really good video. It helped me get a repeater set up in almost exactly the way you described, and gave me the confidence to set up a slightly-different OpenWrt device based only on the documentation afterwards. So: thanks!
Please :) can you make an article explaining how to do this in a openwrt 2023 :)
I am not finding all the options that were clicked by David... maybe because I am using a Dap1325
Fantastic tutorial, I missed selecting lan for the firewall zone of the wireless connection the first time through, but a second pass and I got everything set up perfectly. Thank you!
Same here, some little detail that you miss keeps you without being able to complete the whole process. Nice explained, easy and detailed.
The audio quality in this video is complete trash. But this is what perfection looks like. Instructions worked first try for me amazing!!! Thank you!
Sorry about the audio. I didn't have the best equipment and now my PC has died 🙄 Glad it helped though. I'm hoping to get some new stuff and redo it. The intro is also complete turd 😂😂
@@davidsladdin6270 you can remove background noise with equalizer apo, this can be done by downloading reaper's vst plugins. You can find a tutorial online
If you are recording with obs, it's better to set the plugin on obs. There are tutorials online for that too
It's what I do, it's decent audio quality for me
Thanks for the demo, David.
I experienced a small issue, but I believe that it is related specifically to my router model - TP-Link TL-WR841ND V10. Once I created the bridge interface, I lost access to the GUI of the router and couldn't create the wireless network. So creating the wireless network first helped in my case.
Thanks for this tutorial, spent huge amount of time figuring out why Relay bridge isn't showing up in interfaces... when the only thing i needed to do was rebooting xD
so far the best tutorial i had the pleasure to find, congrats from brazil
Awesome, thank you!
Perfect! I did a Google search for a tutorial on this topic, and this video showed up at the top.
How do you turn off bridge interfaces from the latest OpenWrt firmware? Thanks.
This is great. I wasted 2 hours yesterday trying to get the thing to work. Only step I had to take was adding the WWAN interface to the WLAN firewall zone since this was not done automatically after installing the relayd package for me. Cheers!
Hi Ywaarde! Thanks for the comment. So glad it helped you get it working! The colour of the networks helps you know which ones are linked and I got this wrong in the beginning too.
many thanks!! I managed to work it out!. couple things I needed to add. first for some reason needed to manually add dns 8.8.8.8 and also, to avoid collision with my home 192.168.1.1, I used 192.168.10.1 for the eth0 one initially . again - many thanks for the tutorial.
i hope you're still active here, got a question
i'm a complete beginner with this, and although technically inclined, networking is an enigma to me, i'll never understand it :D
it seems they have changed the interface you used at 8:00. The "Physical Settings" tab doesn't exist anymore. apparently they moved it to a new tab "devices" under the interfaces menu, but i have absolutely no idea what to do there to disable the bridge interface like you did. tried hitting "reset" on the lan bridge interface that was listed there, but the interface entry still stated "br-lan" in its title, unlike the "eth0" seen at 8:35. do you know how to do this in the new openwrt versions?
You could always try 19.07 for now. I'll have a look at the latest version if I get time and make a new video. I really enjoyed making this one in lockdown!
@@davidsladdin6270 i managed to pull a friend aside who knows what he's doing, and we made it work :) still, i'd root for you to do an updated video!
@@TheGumiBear can u explain what have u done? I have same problem
That is the best tutorial so far I find on youtube. Great job. Dummy like me spend hours to configure it but with this tutorial.. takes only but only 5 mins. Thank you so much. All other tutorial I find had always something missing . some of them even wont say you need to download "relayd" waste of time.. but this one is platinium tutorial. I use a/n device for bridge connection and bng for client.. hope no network security issue etc. 😁
Hi David Sladdin
First I would like to thank for your very awesome tutorial. I bought D-Link DIR-2660 and had been trying to install and configure OpenWRT as Repeater / Extender mode for two days, but all in vain till I found your video tutorial.
I could not connect to other Wifi router and the "Associated Stations" did not show up. Its because, to connect it I have to provide Username as wel as Password. I request in honor to provide solution to this problem..
I have never ever subscribed any channel, but your's is the first one that I am going to subscribe..
Hoping to hear form you soon.
Regards and many thanks..
Zeb Khan
Brilliant explanation and a joy to follow and copy :)
Excellent tutorial! Perfect for my TP-Link wifi extender with OpenWrt 21.02.
Still couldn't connect to internet with the same setup on RE450 v3. Do you own the same model?
@@kgursu5146 No, I have the RE220. Openwrt just released a new version of their software, so installation might be different. Try version 21.02.
awesome, working well so far, the only tutorial that works, thanks a lot
Any interest in a new one for 23.05 - it has changed enough that I am having a very hard time with this.
Thank you, can you please do a follow up video to show the ipv6 configuration if possible?
I dont have a physical settings tab on 8:00
Thanks for sharing, you helped me a lot.
Greetings from Brazil
are the packages relayd luci-proto-relay necessary for wds repeater (with openwrt 21) to bridge between lan and wwan with wds client of remote lan ? can you just use only lan ? and no wwan dhcp ip necessary
Excellent! Maybe you should consider submitting this to OpenWRT for them to add to their site as well?
Hey David, Thanks for putting this together. Can you tell me if it's possible to change the MAC address of the radio facing the upstream AP? In your example this is radio1 (the 802.11an interface). My use case is as follows: The AP I wish to extend requires interactive payment and rather than passphrase, authentication is done with client MAC address. I will need to first connect to AP with my phone or notebook, enter my payment info, then spoof that MAC address on the radio1 so that the repeater will connect. Alternately I could change the MAC on my notebook to match the MAC of radio1 while authenticating. Does openwrt expose the MAC address of the radios or allow user to change them?
actually I guess it does, is it listed with wwan properties? ending in C8?
@@grr1972 Hi Greg! Thanks for the comment. I’d certainly believe this to be a possibility. I’m currently away from home but will have a look at the options when I return!
Nice one - worked a treat. Thanks!
Brilliant, an excellent tutorial, my new repeater works fine! Thx
Would I use this scenario if I were at an RV park with slow guest wifi and wanted better wifi in my RV so I can watch my Apple TV?
Hi David ,
First of all thank you for this video , much appreciated.
Quick question ; I have the TP-LINK RE650 dual band extender , is it possible to repeat both frequencies ?
Very nicely explained! Thank you!
Thanks a ton! Super useful!!
Can you have both Wifi networks with the same name so devices will switch depending to the stronger signal?
Yes you can but some devices might not switch automatically as the setup you describe is more of a mesh technology. Try putting them on different channels and then at least you can see which network the devices connect to depending on where they are.
hey thanks your tuto worked for me but why did you set the DHCP as non authoritative, it s not necessary we dont use DHCP.
Thanks for the video. Question, with this setup, if the main hotspot you are repeating or extending somehow restarts and changes its channel, will the openwrt able to reconnect? Because I have another slightly different setup that works, but it locks to the channel and upon hotspot changes its channel, the openwrt not able to pick up without whole setup again.
Thanks for this tutorial. But after all configurations, i can't access my openwrrt repeater,
unless I set an IP on the network card and connect via cable. How could I access the device via the main router's network IP?
A few people have mentioned this issue. Which router are you using? Might be an issue with firewall. Have you checked those settings? You could turn the firewall off (temporarily) to test this theory.
Very good video. Thank you!
I followed all the steps and noticed that after connect, the dhcp from the main firewall was being received by the device but the traffic was not being routed back. I went to router settings and under LAN -> WAN i enabled Masquerading. After everything was working fine.
Nice one Luke - What router are you using?
@@davidsladdin6270 TP-Link TL-WR940N V3.0
Hi, I love your channel. i have a little problem I have tried to create the repeater but I can't get the devices to see each other for example if I want to send some video (for example) from router 2 (repeater) to router 1 (main) these are not found In router 2 I have openwrt to the latest version and if I disable the dhcp of this mo I have internet. please help
Thank you. Did my head in yesterday on a tplink archer c60. But found you video and working. The only thing is I can't log in via WiFi to the openwrt router. I know the IP address but times out. Connect a cable and change IP setting on ethernet and can connect. Any food for thought? Got me stumped lol
I had this the other day actually. Turned out the IP address logged in DHCP for OpenWrt on my main router was for one of the WiFi interfaces being broadcast (the extender interface). I ended up finding it by doing an IP scan and then set the IP static instead of being on DHCP. This way I always know what the IP will be. Could this be your issue too?
@@davidsladdin6270 Hey David, it’s a great tutorial and I managed to get everything working. But I can’t access my repeater interface anymore, even Wan address shown in “Interfaces” tab doesn’t work. How do I setup static IP for it? Should I change it in “interfaces” “WWAN” static ip? Could you explain in detail, button to button please. Because I’m a total noob at this things. Thank you
@@daniyarassylbekov1532 I can take a look with you if you'd prefer? Are all the interfaces showing the same colour so you know they're in the same firewall grouping?
@@davidsladdin6270 i managed the issue. Ty for the response
@@davidsladdin6270 Hi David, am having the same issue and really need some assistance. For me changing the IP to a static 192.168.0.x range doesn't work as i end up literally losing the access as it shifts to something but no idea what, especially not the static i give.
Hi will it look like this for any router i install open wrt?
great tutorial, I followed and works good. thank you
Hi thanks for this tutorial. I followed you till I started scanning for wifi networks. It cannot find any wifi network. The "Starting wireless scan" won't just end. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Hi, that’s strange. Have you tried a different browser or another radio if you have a choice?
Hi David, first of all thank you for this tutorial.
I'm tried to follow this guide on Asus WL-500gP V2 router with OpenWRT version 19.7. Problem is or it's look like that I can't had two wireless radio enabled at one time, I mean first is client to my primary router and secound will be a new access point. But it's not working.
Where can be a problem?
It's probably because I need router with two wireless devices?
Hi Jan, I had the same problem... follow instructions but after you enable the second radio go back to the interfaces screen and correct the settings there as per the video. It wipes your settings when you enable the second radio. Hope this makes some sense. 😆
@@davidsladdin6270 Can you be more specific please, what I must correct in interfaces?
So, get one radio working and all setup and then do a backup (in case of a problem). Then add another radio but before hitting save, head to the Interface screen and add the new wirless to the firewall group and check the static address and DNS settings. I'm going to try do another video showing this shortly but my PC isn't working atm.
@@davidsladdin6270 Ok, I tried this step by step.
Removed Access point radio. Save and Apply. Did a backup. Add a new radio (Access point), but didn't hit Save and Apply (Interface has 7 pending changes). Then went to Interface section. Add new interface (DHCP client) and same Firewall settings as the previous one. Save and Apply in interface section. Then switch back to Wireless section but same problem as before. I don't know what I'm doing wrong? Where exactly can I check the static address and DNS settings? Thx David.
Thank you so much!!! You're a legend.
is it possible to use ethernet with it, cuz ethernet isnt working for me
Thanks very much. I have been trying to setup this type of relay for a long time, but all the tutorials had something wrong. This one worked perfectly first time. Just 1 question: is it possible to relay the SAME SSID?
I have the same question. Can I use the same ssid?
you can, try it
I can connect to the internet via a wired connection, but can't access the internet via Access Point WiFi. How to fix it?. All settings are correct, I can't even ping to the gateway from the laptop once connected to the Access Point WiFi.
I connect the Openwrt router to the internet and the ping command in the router does work.
But the connection from the Openwrt router does not have internet access.
I mean when I connect my laptop to the router It has no internet connection. But when I connect the laptop to the Openwrt router 'with the cable' is has an internet connection for the laptop.
In the other words, the Openwrt router will give the internet from the main modem/router wirelessly just with a cable but unable to give that connection through wifi.
I follow every rule you tolled us. What should I do to have an internet connection through wifi?
It sounds like you haven't done the firewall settings. Are all the interfaces the same colour (LAN, WWAN)?
With the 23.05 Openwrt firmware i got error on installing relayd + the luci package.
Afterwards Luci "Desktop" didnt start up. Had to ssh into and then reboot to new with: "firstboot"
Could then install relayd again, made reboot and then installed the luci relayd package to have a stable run
Btw i did both installs with overwriting conflict
Thanks! Very nice tutorial!
Great tutorial video! Thx for help!
NETGEAR EX6150 V2 - I worked on this for two days, and boiled it down to no matter what I did, even fresh virgin install, if I configured both a client and a master, I ended up only with a client radio, no power coming from the master.... UNTIL - I changed the two radios to 20mhz instead of 40 or 80 (default), then it all came together :)
I also found that, even though right now as proof this works I downgraded to OpenWrt 19.07.4 to get close to what is demoed in this video, the EX6150 v2 cant be upgraded beyond 21.02.5
If you go beyond that then when you create a wifi interface, SCAN will not work anymore nor will the new graphic the displays nearby wifi that also uses scan.
I am unable to update the list. it's asking to check the connection. I use PPPoE with a username and password issued by ISP on my main router. Do I need to change from DHCP Client to PPoE and add those credentials in repeater?
every solve thus
After I connect to my wireless network, I am no longer able to access the LUA configuration Interface. If I can, it is only for a split second, and them it times out with the 'Unable to Connect' screen. Do you know why this might be? Link lights are still on.
Open a command prompt (if on Windows) or terminal on Linux/Mac and type arp -a and then enter. Try the various IP addresses that come up in your range. It might be on more than 1 address. You can use your main router to see connected devices and their IP addresses as an alternative. Let me know how you get on.
Hi David, my devices are not receiving IP address, I have checked the main router DHCP is enabled and working fine when connecting via it but the extender router (AP) keeps on loosing configurations like LAN bridge get enabled, the wireless network SSID also losses the network 'lan' it revert back to unspecified. Any pointers?
You sure you’ve setup relayd correctly?
@@davidsladdin6270 It is now working, I had to reset my router and do it again some settings did not reset initially, my bad, thank you very much for your video it was helpful! thumbs up!!
there's no physical settings tab for me when editing lan interface
In the new settings tabs its all a bit mixed Up.
Has anyone tried this on Raspberry pi, I tried but it did not work out! I want to know if I did something wrong or that its simply not possible?
thank you David
Thanks for the tutorial. I cannot access my router after relay bridge of WLAN and LAN?
Anything to help?
Never mind I forgot to add static IP
theres a bit of voice in your noise
Not working for me :( followed every step. Trying to connect EE wifi dongle to my openwrt router via wifi and create another wifi whilst also being able to use the Ethernet port to connect a cctv NVR to give that internet access
Hi George, sorry to hear that it didn’t work. Which router are you using OpenWRT on? I don’t mind having a look with you at some point, I like a challenge!
@@davidsladdin6270 Same for me. I'm using a Linksys EA3500
@@alessandroaiezza4339 on my TPLink WR841N I went to Network->Firewall->Traffic Rules and added a rule to allow dhcp-renew from the lan for port 68 to 'Any zone' with the destination address as the main router's address and this finally worked!!!!! thanks OP for the video
Hi, awesome tutorial.
I followed the instructions and the dhcp don't seems to work. I use a Lenovo Y1 router. So you have any idea? I change the rules in the firewall with no success.
Thank you so much !!
thank you very much
Your audio has got static, like a too far away radio station broadcasting on AM. Makes it hard to follow along.
did not repeat my main router's SSID.
Useless as the 21.x version branch has changed just every setting, nothing is the same as what is shown in the video, especially the crucial part about LAN interfaces.
My bad… I should have looked into the future and changed the video to match what I didn’t know was coming 🤪
Спасибо чувак, с первого раза получилось!
Thank you
My bridge isn’t green hummm
Love you
Perfect, thanks!!
Jenius mate