jimasek wrote Maybe give us screenshot from status your second router with "Enable WDS Bridging", please check IP addressing on your computers. I've put a little inset with the survey results too

Yep - I think there's something else I need to do as well. I've turned off DHCP on the bridge and surveyed the correct wireless network and put in its password.

jimasek wrote WDS is not standardized, I don't have any more ideas, maybe change your Netgear and buy other TP-link. I did that. I now have two identical routers - still no joy, in fact it's worse...

jimasek wrote I mean two routers from different manufacturers. Between two TP-link has no problems. I'll ask support, but there's no such stipulation in the manual...

Incidentally, turning off MAC filtering and clearing out all the reserved IP addresses on the root AP did not have any effect. I've also tried adding the laptop's ethernet MAC to the MAC filter, but...

http://uk.tp-link.com/article/?faqid=227 There are definitely two routers involved, there...