Bought a Comstar wireless N router from Futureshop to use as a repeater with my Linksys WRT54G. I've been told people have gotten it to work this way, but I've had no success. I want to extend my wireless range in my house from one end to the other...the Linksys is the internet router and is located in the basement, I want to put the Comstar at the other end of the house, also in the basement to feed the signal to the upper floor above it. Any ideas how to set it up.
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Ok, first off, I have no idea whether or not the Comstar Router has a built-in Repeater mode.
Nevertheless, I know for sure you can use/flash DD-WRT firmware on the Linksys Router to set it up in Repeater mode. Therefore if the Comstar doesn't support Repeater mode natively you will then have to use it as the main source for Internet and use the Linksys as the Repeater as there is no DD-WRT firmware support for Comstar Routers.
What you'll need:
This, This and This.
For the first link you'll want to click on the Repeater Bridge link. I just sent that main link so you can read up on the other possible ways of Linking Routers if you please.
PS: In setting up my own RBridge at home I found I had intermittent issues with the connection dropping ever so often. I don't know if you may experience these issues as well, but what solved those disconnects for me was to set up the Routers in WDS mode, which is somewhat similar to RBridge mode. In my case I had two Linksys Routers so I flashed both, but for you if you experience issues with RBridge you wouldn't be able to use WDS unless of course the Router supports it natively, because DD-WRT doesn't support Comstar. WDS requires both Routers to be flashed.
You also must keep in mind that if you do decide to go this route and flash your Router(s) you run the risk of bricking them; rendering them unusable. -
Thanks for all the good info, but I finally gave up and took it back.
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I don't know if you may experience these issues as well, but what solved those disconnects for me was to set up the Routers in WDS mode, which is somewhat similar to RBridge mode.
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One solution would be using a dedicated tool for the job:
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WRE54G
Last attempt to setup a repeater
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by RobertDrake, Sep 27, 2009.