Expand WIFI Signal

[spyfly]

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Hello, I wanted to have wifi signal in a large area and be able to walk around it all without losing the network or noticing disconnections at any time.

I was told that I could do this for example with 3 routers configured in the following way:

router 1-> ssid: pepito channel:1 key: pepe(WPA) IP:192.168.1.1 DHCP:Enabled
router 2-> ssid: pepito channel:6 key: pepe(WPA) IP:192.168.1.2 DHCP:192.168.1.1
router 3 -> ssid: pepito channel:11 key: pepe(WPA) IP:192.168.1.3 DHCP:192.168.1.1

The routers are connected to each other by ethernet cable.

I have it configured this way, but if I ping google when I move, I lose packets, in each change of antenna I lose 1 or 2.
But if I ping 192.168.1.2 when I move, I don't lose packets in the changes of antenna. How can this be????

Is there another method of configuration better than the one I use??? Am I doing it right??

Thanks and regards

[XRAYBoY]

Check if your routers support WDS (Wireless Distribution System) and enter the MAC addresses of the three (in the three) so that they identify themselves as repeaters.
If so, you must configure them all on the same channel and use the same encryption and key on all of them for it to work.

From the help of my router:

Wireless Distribution System (WDS)
When WDS is enabled, this access point functions as a wireless repeater and is able to wirelessly communicate with other APs via WDS links. A WDS link is bidirectional; so this AP must know the MAC Address (creates the WDS link) of the other AP, and the other AP must have a WDS link back to this AP. Each WDS APs need setting as same channel, encryption type. (Note that WDS security is incompatible with mixed mode, like WPAPSK+WPA2PSK mixed, WEP AUTO and 802.1x, both feature cannot be used at the same time).

Configuring WDS with TEW-691GR 450Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router
Enable the option for WDS and input the MAC Address of the wireless device that also supports WDS in to the blank fields. You can add up to four additional devices in the spaces provided. Click on apply at the bottom of the page, to apply your setting changes. Enable the security seeing in security page, each WDS APs need to use same security setting. (Note: WDS supports wireless g/n modes. The use multiple Access Point will reduces the overall network throughput to ½ the TEW-691GR 450Mbps Wireless N Gigabit Router.

WDS Enable
When WDS is enabled, this access point functions as a wireless repeater and is able to wirelessly communicate with other APs via WDS links. A WDS link is bidirectional, so this AP must know the MAC Address (creates the WDS link) of the other AP, and the other AP must have a WDS link back to this AP. Make sure the APs are configured with same channel number, encryption type. (Note that WDS security is incompatible with mixed mode, like WPAPSK+WPA2PSK mixed, WEP AUTO and 802.1x, both feature cannot be used at the same time).

WDS AP MAC Address
Input the MAC Address of the wireless device that also supports WDS link in to the blank fields. The other AP must also have the MAC address of this AP to create the WDS link back to this AP. Enter a MAC address for each of the other APs that you want to connect with WDS.

[spyfly]

But beware that the 3 routers are connected by cable to each other, I think that WDS is not necessary, no?

A wireless distribution system (WDS) is a system that allows the wireless interconnection of access points in an IEEE 802.11 network. It allows a wireless network to be extended using multiple access points without the need for a trunk cable to connect them. The advantage of WDS over other solutions is that it preserves the MAC addresses of the client packets through the different access points.

Suppose I do it by wifi, I would have a router connecting by wifi to another and this one to another. So the last router depends on the 2 previous wifi. Suppose that the first router has a vel of 54 mbps with 4 clients + 1 router (the next one) would leave an individual speed of about 10 mbps for each one. In router 2 we would have 10 mbps of speed assuming other 4 clients + 1 router (the third) leaves us a speed of 2 mbps for each client as well as for the third router. In the third router it has 2 mbps could be connected 5 clients and gives us about 0.4 mb for each client of router number 3.

However using the cable option we would have in each router 100 mbps obtaining the possibility to emit in each router the 54 mbps without problem. In the third router which is the most extreme case we have 54 mbps for 5 clients which gives us a speed of about 10 mbps for each client.

We see that by wifi we only had 0.4 mbps while by cable we will have about 10 mbps.

For my installation efficiency is a priority regardless of the economic amount, for that reason I have chosen to connect the equipment to each other by cable.

For the cable connection how should I configure the routers, how do I have them already?

[AgustinTRC]

sorry for reviving the post, but I have the same problem, at one end of the house a router (WRT54G2)(1) where the arnet modem is connected, and at the other end of the house another router (EW-7209APg)(2) connected by cable, the signal to the middle of the two routers arrives well from both, but the signal from router to router does not arrive.
the problem is that I move a lot from one side to the other, and I have them as wifi1 and wifi2. when I move from one side to the other it takes about half an hour for me to connect to the other network. can you make a single network with two access points? so I can move between the two networks without losing connection?
on the other hand, I have an HP Deskjet 3050 printer connected to the second router, making a single network, could I print from a PC connected to the first router?

[MaEBLoR]

We are going to revive a post from the past… xD

As XRAYBoY said, the thing to do is use WDS, you take two routers that support it and one of them you put as the main one and the others as repeaters.

The main one in the WDS module of configuration, will have a list where you must put the MAC of each one, the routers have two MACs, the one of the wifi and the one of the router, I have tried WDS with the MAC of the WIFI, but logic tells me that placing the MAC of the router itself... should accept it without problems and work even if it goes by cable which is what the creator of the thread wanted in the first place.

So in summary I got very confused...

Main router, the one that has access to the internet. This router is put as WDS as the main one, and each MAC of the other routers that are going to work as a repeater is filled in, whether it is one, two or whatever.

It must be taken into account that you must put the MAC of what you are going to use, if you connect them by wifi, then the mac of the wifi, this one does not come on the sticker sometimes, but you have it in the wireless configuration.

Repeater routers, in these routers what you are going to do in the WDS menu is put the MAC of the main one and the gateway of the main one...

It is simple, the only thing to keep in mind is that you must put the same network name to all the routers and the same encryption.

In this way when you pass from one to another it does not disconnect, it is simply as if it were a single network, which it really is.

As the creator of the thread says, the advantage of doing it by cable between the routers is that no speed is wasted between them.

I messed around a few days ago with two linksys wrt54gl, I connected them by WDS and tried with just one how far it would reach with the laptop walking down the street... it reached up to 60 steps until the connection was lost... Well I separated the two routers 150 steps apart (I put the repeater on top of a wall at the end of the street with a car battery :ugly:) I did the test again doing a "ping-t" and at no time did it disconnect or do anything strange, so WDS is the simplest and "nicest" solution for this type of network to gain coverage.