[Pilly]

Please excuse what might be a novice question. I am wondering if I can daisy chain routers and still use dd-wrt effectively, i.e. connect a dd-wrt compatible wi-fi router to my existing router.

The reason I am thinking of this, is that my existing router is an LTE/4G router using a SIM (I lived on a boat, and now I'm back on land the available speed in my area is relatively poor - 10 Mbps).

There are some LTE/4G models supported by openWRT but 2 are Chinese hardware that a friend advised me against (suggesting the hardware might not support the full feature set), one is a dongle and one is a D-link router I am considering.

I would rather use dd-wrt but can find no supported LTE/4G router. Searching on the forums, there are suggestions to use an LTE dongle and plug into a dd-wrt compatible router. I am guessing I would get better connection and speed from my current 4G/LTE TP-Link router though and so would like to keep using it if possible.

Hence wondering if I can install dd-wrt on a suitable router, connect it (LAN to WAN socket?) by ethernet to my current LTE/4G router, and have all my home devices then connect to this inner/dd-wrt router.

I am unsure if daisy chaining the routers like this would work, and if putting dd-wrt on the inner router and not the outward facing/internet connected router would limit the usefulness or functionality of the dd-wrt install?

I did make an effort to look on the forums for this into but relevant sounding posts quickly got technical in a way I didn't fully understand!

Any advice on this much appreciated.

[egc]

You can daisy chain without a problem be sure that your primary LTE router has a different IP subnet from your DDWRT router.

There are drawbacks but for normal use it is no problem

[Pilly]

[egc]

Only the first one works just put them on their own subnet with both DHCP etc.

Alternatively if you want one subnet you can setup like this: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point

You have one subnet but the DDWRT router is just an access point everything else is done by the LTE router

[Pilly]

Thanks egc. Lots of useful info in that link. And better, more precise ways to describe things too! e.g. "a gateway router that is downstream of a primary gateway router".

Much appreciated.