[ThunderBolt]

Guys,

I have four wireless devices on my apartment:

One DIR-300 A1 (Atheros) as main router;
Another DIR-300 A1 and one Buffalo WHR-G125 (Broadcom) configured in client bridge mode.

One week ago I bought one DIR-600 B2 (Ralink) and intended to configure it as another client bridge.

The problem is that the DIR-600 is not estabilishing conection with the main router (DIR-300 A1). I have followed all the wiki steps for client bridge mode (except the part of setting the ack timing to zero, that I couldn't find it in the ralink dd-wrt firmware).

I also tried configuring the DIR-600 as main router. In that way, the Atheros devices could not connect to the DIR-600.

The wierd thing is that the WHR-G125 was able to connect to the DIR-600 without any issue.

All routers are flashed with BS's 14594 (except the G125 whitch is with Eko's latest build).

Has anyone managed to configure a DIR-600 as a client bridge in such a way?

[]'s

[btechnet]

Typically ralink devices wont configure as client bridge, only client mode.

Some ralink devices wont establish a link between broadcom and ralink.

A lot of times when you are having interface problems its because of the protection mode (WPA, WPA2). broadcom routers don't like to interface well with atheros using WPA or WPA2.

Try turning the security off on both and try to establish communication.

Another thing is, make sure that all routers are set to the same wireless channel. Some firmware versions dont like to set the wireless channel properly, (they default to 1)

Instead of "joining" the network using site survey, try manually typing in the SSID and select the channel while in AP mode. Then change it to client bridge. (save then apply). That should set the ssid and channel to the right channel. If that works then try setting wpa or wpa2.

[DoesItMatter]

Yes, I've seen the issue where the WHR-G300N (RT3052 based)
would not connect to a Broadcom router (Asus RT-N16)

What if you reconfigure your layout?

Put either the WHR-G125 as the main AP,
or put the new DIR-600 as your main AP

And then have the others connect to that?

[Sash]

afaik ralink units show some blanks in the ssid when u hit "join network" so the ssid wont fit. plz recheck this!

[ThunderBolt]

Guys,

Just to give you some feedback:

As you could see in my first message, I tried putting the DIR-600 as main router. In that configuration, only the G125 (Broadcom) could make the connection with it. The two others (DIR-300 A1) couldn't.

The solution for me was exchanging the DIR-600 that I had bought in another DIR-300 that was sub-utilized as an AP in my brother's school: Now I have 3 DIR-300 (2 in client bridge mode), all working without any issue.

[]'s

PS: Ah, the DIR-600 is working fine as an AP