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Tomato wireless repeater. Setup a wireless repeater bridge. Technically when in client mode your router can only pass the incoming wireless signal to clients connected to one of the router s lan ports. It extends the functionality of a manufacturer firmware and almost everything possible with linux can be implemented in tomato with proper know how in coding and the linux environment. Forum discussions general is repeater bridge or repeater mode possible.
Setting up a wireless repeater with dd wrt and tomato firmware posted on sunday december 20 2015 5 43 am by tcat shelbyville it department so you can t cover your home or business with an adequate wireless signal. The downside with wds is that it forces you to downgrade from wpa2 to wpa it does not take full advantage of wireless n and it wont work if your main router does not. 121 on the asus rt n16 now i m having a problem getting the dd wrt linksys router to work as a repeater. In my case i want my client router to connect to the primary host router which is broadcasting a wireless ssid named tomato 24.
Tomato router wireless ethernet bridge repeater mode tomato is one of the most if not the most robust router firmware to date. As of this writing tomato firmware does not offer a repeater mode. But i wanted to try tomatousb so i flashed tomatousb vers. Make a note of the ssid.
I had a repeater set up with a asus rt n16 as my main router using a linksys 610n router for the repeater. However it does offer a mode called access point wds. Some people prefer dd wrt firmware for its repeater bridge feature which handles both wired and wireless clients. If you do not have administrative rights to this access point you ll need to acquire the password.
To re broadcast the signal wirelessly the router would need to be configured as a repeater unfortunately tomato does not yet support repeater mode. How to connect two routers on one home network using a lan cable stock router netgear tp link duration. Richard lloyd 2 642 401 views. As we know tomato does not support running as a repeater or repeater bridge like ddwrt for now and the only way to make it work like a repeater is to use it as an ap wds.