Trying to use two TP-WR702N routers in BRIDGE mode
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Trying to use two TP-WR702N routers in BRIDGE mode
Model : TL-WR702N
Hardware Version : WR702N 1.0 00000000
Firmware Version : 4.20.0 Build 131211 Rel. 37483n
ISP : BT
Hi all, (and thanks for looking at my first post).
I have two WR702N mini routers that I had expected to be able to use in a 'bridge' mode - to provide LAN and WAN connectivity for my amateur astronomy observatory at the far end of my garden. I know the obvious answer is a simple 'cabled' solution, but I have already tried that, and have learned the 'hard' way when a nearby lightning strike took out every single piece of electronics connected to the ethernet cable!
So, my thoughts were:
[*]For the 'Indoor End
Using PoE, run a cable out of the house, for a few metres, to a WR702N running in Repeater mode, simply extending my internal LAN and WiFi to the same IP range, with the same DHCP as provided by my internal ISP router, and using the same SSID as already present (with the same WPA/PSK security level as already exists)
[*]For the 'Observatpry End'
Using PoE back from the observatory, again for a few metres, connect to a second WR702N, but this time running in Bridged mode. This unit would connect to my internal WiFi (as described above), but would re-broadcast on a totally separate "Observatory" SSID (still with WPA/PSK), and would also be cable-connected to a TP-Link PoE Router that will be sitting on a completely different IP network, whose gateway would lead straight through my internal LAN to my ISP. (Obviously, I am trying to keep the Observatory network 'separate' from the Internal network as much as possible)
I am currently testing (2) on its own - just linking to the existing WiFi provided by my current Router (thus avoiding double complexities of introducing Repeater mode as well at the moment). However - as you can guess from this post, I am not having much success!!
Am I trying the impossible? Everything in the TP-Link literature seemed to suggest it was possible, perhaps I am just not 'technically savvy enough' to figure out what I am doing wrong?
I would really appreciate any help that can be given (I have tried searching the Forum fairly extensively, but cannot find any references to situations similar enough to mine to be of any help).
Regards,
Niall Saunders
Clinterty Observatories
Aberdeen, UK
Hardware Version : WR702N 1.0 00000000
Firmware Version : 4.20.0 Build 131211 Rel. 37483n
ISP : BT
Hi all, (and thanks for looking at my first post).
I have two WR702N mini routers that I had expected to be able to use in a 'bridge' mode - to provide LAN and WAN connectivity for my amateur astronomy observatory at the far end of my garden. I know the obvious answer is a simple 'cabled' solution, but I have already tried that, and have learned the 'hard' way when a nearby lightning strike took out every single piece of electronics connected to the ethernet cable!
So, my thoughts were:
[*]For the 'Indoor End
Using PoE, run a cable out of the house, for a few metres, to a WR702N running in Repeater mode, simply extending my internal LAN and WiFi to the same IP range, with the same DHCP as provided by my internal ISP router, and using the same SSID as already present (with the same WPA/PSK security level as already exists)
[*]For the 'Observatpry End'
Using PoE back from the observatory, again for a few metres, connect to a second WR702N, but this time running in Bridged mode. This unit would connect to my internal WiFi (as described above), but would re-broadcast on a totally separate "Observatory" SSID (still with WPA/PSK), and would also be cable-connected to a TP-Link PoE Router that will be sitting on a completely different IP network, whose gateway would lead straight through my internal LAN to my ISP. (Obviously, I am trying to keep the Observatory network 'separate' from the Internal network as much as possible)
I am currently testing (2) on its own - just linking to the existing WiFi provided by my current Router (thus avoiding double complexities of introducing Repeater mode as well at the moment). However - as you can guess from this post, I am not having much success!!
Am I trying the impossible? Everything in the TP-Link literature seemed to suggest it was possible, perhaps I am just not 'technically savvy enough' to figure out what I am doing wrong?
I would really appreciate any help that can be given (I have tried searching the Forum fairly extensively, but cannot find any references to situations similar enough to mine to be of any help).
Regards,
Niall Saunders
Clinterty Observatories
Aberdeen, UK