Need some help setting up a WDS connection
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Need some help setting up a WDS connection
Region : Others
Model : TL-WR740N
Hardware Version : V4
Firmware Version : 3.16.5 Build 130329 Rel.62825n
ISP :
Hello.
I have spent a lot of time trying to configure the setup that i want, but nothing works. I have a WR740N router set us my main router and it's the one that gets the connection from the ISP's modem. Now i want to increase the range of that signal with two additional routers. One was not enough so i bought two WR743N routers to cover a longer distance, but i seem to be running in to all kind of trouble with this. I was reading that you can't just cascade two or more routers in universal repeater mode to increase the wireless signal's range, so today i tried to switch them both to WDS repeater mode.
This is the trouble i have run in today. At one point i did manage to ping all three of the routers at the same time and that's when i tried to test the connection on my phone. The first repeater worked OK and i could access internet on the phone, but when i got out of range of it and only in the range of the second repeater, i could not longer access the internet. Also, for some my phone showed the signal strength at full. After some time, it disappeared and i could not even access the internet from my first repeater.
Even more than that, now i could not access the internet from my main PC, which is connected to the WR740N with a wire and it seemed like i needed to log in to the administration page for the PC to see that there is a router and after that, i could access the internet from my PC.
So to recap, i went from being able to ping all three routers, to not being able to ping any router at all, just by walking around with my phone and trying to detect the signal.
Also at times, when i could access the repeaters through the administration page, they felt very slow and sometimes worked at random times.
I feel like i am doing something wrong and that there is some conflict or interference between the routers or something like that, which causes them to drop randomly.
Any help would be appreciated.
thank you.
Model : TL-WR740N
Hardware Version : V4
Firmware Version : 3.16.5 Build 130329 Rel.62825n
ISP :
Hello.
I have spent a lot of time trying to configure the setup that i want, but nothing works. I have a WR740N router set us my main router and it's the one that gets the connection from the ISP's modem. Now i want to increase the range of that signal with two additional routers. One was not enough so i bought two WR743N routers to cover a longer distance, but i seem to be running in to all kind of trouble with this. I was reading that you can't just cascade two or more routers in universal repeater mode to increase the wireless signal's range, so today i tried to switch them both to WDS repeater mode.
This is the trouble i have run in today. At one point i did manage to ping all three of the routers at the same time and that's when i tried to test the connection on my phone. The first repeater worked OK and i could access internet on the phone, but when i got out of range of it and only in the range of the second repeater, i could not longer access the internet. Also, for some my phone showed the signal strength at full. After some time, it disappeared and i could not even access the internet from my first repeater.
Even more than that, now i could not access the internet from my main PC, which is connected to the WR740N with a wire and it seemed like i needed to log in to the administration page for the PC to see that there is a router and after that, i could access the internet from my PC.
So to recap, i went from being able to ping all three routers, to not being able to ping any router at all, just by walking around with my phone and trying to detect the signal.
Also at times, when i could access the repeaters through the administration page, they felt very slow and sometimes worked at random times.
I feel like i am doing something wrong and that there is some conflict or interference between the routers or something like that, which causes them to drop randomly.
Any help would be appreciated.
thank you.