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I have this problem with my two WRT3200ACM where they do not seem to create the WDS properly.

Here is my setup:

https://imgur.com/a/IL8Uw9l

And I followed this guide here: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WDS_Linked_router_network

Searched the forums and found that WENED is in fact successfully using a WRT3200ACM WDS AP + WRT1900AC WDS station so surely my setup should work as well?

On the last picture it seems they connect to each other. However the WDS Table is missing. Looking at signal quality on my phone there is not improvement.

Switching the WDS station to AP with different SSID shows that the signal should be much stronger. Hence why I assume WDS does not work.

Am I missing something here?

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copystring,

I would be more happy to help you out with this as I currently have a 3200 WDS to 3 1900's fully functional and with no problems whatsoever.

I have quickly reviewed your settings and have the following comments;

1 - I notice you have r42847 on both devices. I am running this build on my master 3200 only. My 1900 V1's are on r31924 (Quite old but very stable). I did try to upgrade my 1900's yesterday and initially it appeared to be working well but progressively deteriorated and I reverted to the old build. Once you get it going if you start experiencing strange problems, drop your 1900 build back a couple of years.

2 - In your WDS ATH0 setup you have put in "WDS_5_GHZ", this entry should be the IP 192.168.X.XXX of the associated MAC address entered (The connecting router)

3 - Further I noticed that you are trying to use both bands in WDS mode. As best I remember you can only use one band in WDS or any Client operation between the same routers.
Most of my devices are on the 2.4Ghz band and therefore utilizing the 5Ghz for WDS linking and all 2.4Ghz AP's show every device connected on my 3200 with their true identity (MAC Address) rather than with Client/Bridged which only shows the devices with the MAC Address of the source router.

Not sure if any of this helps, especially since I tend to ramble, but let me know if I can help any further.

I did forget to mention that I have given up on the 3200 2.Ghz radio completely as it has given me nothing but grief.

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Thanks.

It seems there is no r31924 for the wrt3200acm. I do not have the 1900.

I will try your suggestions anyway.

On Status -> Wireless do you have a table with WDS nodes? Because I don't.
However on the wiki there is one.:

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I have done some more testing with WDS on my system.

The entry where I said to put the ID of the corresponding router is irrelevant and the system doesn't care what's entered. I blanked out my settings for this field and all still works fine.

I tried again to activate with later releases on my 1900 but could not get a stable connection. I even tried on my 1200 after a full reset but WDS would not connect. Now here's the real kicker, if I disable the 2.4Ghz the WDS connection comes up without problem.
This has been a problem for quite some time and why I reverted my 1900's back to 31924 as it was a known stable build.

I opened a ticket #7056 regarding this and other problems with recent builds.