Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:07 Post subject: [SOLVED] Problem with WDS and 2 x Netgear R6700
I am reliant on a 4G router using ATT Wireless. No complaints on the service, getting good-enough connection with a big yagi antenna on the roof for two persons to work remotely and never any observed slowdowns despite going multiples over data caps ever since, Covid, you know.
I had a hard time getting anything to work here, tried more carrier & 4G router combos I care to think. The ONLY 4G router that worked well with good signal/speeds will NOT work in bridge mode so I have to use the 4G router DHCP and using a Netgear AC1750 R6700 (original, no version number so V1 I guess) for wireless AP.
Trying to extend a good wireless signal to the barn by setting up WDS. I have identical R6700 with the same DD-WRT 47608. Following the WDS setup guide I get good WDS Nodes signal and signal quality but can never get connection (ie ping or DHCP resolution) from the client to host.
In the setup:
4G router has DHCP and is set at 192.168.0.1
wired R6700 AP WDS host is set at 192.168.0.2
WDS client R6700 AP is set at 192.168.0.3
In the wired AP I 'think' I've set the Gateway and Local DNS to all four possible combos there are between 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2, no success (BTW, which is correct?).
Any suggestions on what to look at? _________________ D-Link DIR-825 B1 - DD-WRT v3.0-r35681 std (04/06/18) modded with 2 USB ports
Netgear R6700v1 - DD-WRT v3.0-r47608 std (10/28/21)
D-Link DIR-890L - DD-WRT v3.0-r44863 std (11/24/20)
Last edited by motojapi on Fri Nov 26, 2021 16:03; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:11 Post subject:
From the build release threads:
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• WDS does not work on Broadcom ARM devices (only MIPS<->MIPS) & bridge modes on k4.4 devices may sometimes work in some configurations for certain builds but are not supported by the bcmdhd driver. Try client or repeater modes, but YMMV.
Somehow I managed to miss all the warnings about Broadcom devices and that's what I have for now.
I configured the second router as Repeater Bridge and it seems to work OK. I can ping it over the bridge, access the UI, gets time from nntp.org etc. I guess time will tell if this will be a reliable solution. If not then there will be two more 6700s for sale on ebay _________________ D-Link DIR-825 B1 - DD-WRT v3.0-r35681 std (04/06/18) modded with 2 USB ports
Netgear R6700v1 - DD-WRT v3.0-r47608 std (10/28/21)
D-Link DIR-890L - DD-WRT v3.0-r44863 std (11/24/20)
I found out the hard way too after hours of screwing around with it, I finally just made a wireless bridge with the 2.4ghz band and then created a virtual connection with that same band so the router was sorta like a dual band repeater, over a month of uptime on both routers and never had any issues besides the never will be fixed android roaming bug, it was a good fix but I recently got 4 r7000s for $30 each and flashed dd wrt on 1 of them and the signal maintains 70% at the far corners of a 3 story house, I'm guessing the antennas are what makes all the difference.
One of my Dir860L-A1 finally blew up, break my wifi bridge. I attempted to patch the bridge running RelayD between non like routers, and the bridge would just would not stay up for more than 24 hours.
After a few week of trying to find a viable pair of routers at resonable price, I found the R6700 from Amazon Warehouse for $18 and they had lots of them. I bought 4 of them such that I would get at least on 1 pair as there are 3 versions of the router. All recieved routers were v3, 1 still with the protive plastic on the router. Saw this post when researching if WDS was fixed or not and what build these should be running. Currently running r47481 from a quick google search.
what kind of distance are you guys trying to cover? I'm curious because my house is 3920 sq ft and my r7000 is wall mounted in my office which is almost center of the house and I have very usable connection speeds throughout the house and reasonable connection to the garage. My buffalo router only had internal antennas and I had to link 2 of them and a netgear repeater in the garage for the wireless garage door and cameras, I would assume the 6700 would have an equivalent range as the 7000.