Okay guys, I need your expertise on the following (and I hope someone can help, because I am starting to pull my hair out). Sighs.
We were using 1 router (Asus RT-AC66U with MerlinWRT firmware). I love this router and the firmware. It's performance is good (both WLAN, as LAN). I had it configured with 2 wifi networks. One of them was for our own private use and the other one was for guests (both password shielded).
However, though it worked without issues, the performance was bad on the top floor. So I decided to purchase a 2nd router, which is placed on a cabinet on the 1st floor. The 2nd router is a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND (with DD-WRT firmware installed). The TP-Link router is connected by LAN (from my HP switch).
The TP-Link router should increase the wifi experience for both our own private wifi signal as the signal for guests. FYI: I disabled guest access on the Asus router completely, as the TP-Link router should take care of that.
Now I am running into many, many problems. One of them is, if you connect to the TP-Link router, I don't get internet for some reason. I really have no clue what I did wrong. I used the following tutorials:
This is the tutorial I used to setup the 'Wireless Access Point', I checked if this is what I needed and so far I can tell this is it: Wireless Access Point (Wiki DD-WRT)
After that I started searching on setting up a guest network. I thought I found an good and clear tutorial, but I think I am still doing something wrong. The tutorial I used for setting up Guest Wifi is located here: Guest Wifi Setup DD-WRT
Probably I made a mistake somewhere, somehow, but it's kinda hard to find this. Maybe I should change some settings on the main router as well, since that's not described anywhere. As you can see I really don't have an idea on how to proceed at all. So I am hoping someone on here can point me in the correct way.
A few things to notice or take in consideration (dunno if possible at all):
- I want both routers to be in the same IP range (192.168.0.x)
- both wifi signals have their own (but same) SSID, so 2 SSIDs in total
If you have comments or remarks about this, please, do share, I am always willing to learn and improve my network in general.
If you need any other information, or if I missed something, please let me know as well. I think I have been thorough, however it's only human to miss something.
After giving up yesterday on this (was getting late); I will try a different approach this evening. I will setup the 'Wireless Access Point' first (instead of doing them both straight after each other) and see if I can get internet at all.
Thank you in advance for your help and advice. And thank you for taking a look at my thread. Highly appreciated.
Side information; the reason for the guest network (with password) is because my girlfriend has a beauty parlour (correct wording for it?) on the top floor. So the guest network is mainly used for her clients. They "complained" about the internet connection (wifi) being slow. I checked it myself and indeed it was slow, slower than it should have been (probably too many floors, concrete and other obstacles in between). Same goes for our private signal in that area. That's the whole reason I bought a 2nd router.
We were using 1 router (Asus RT-AC66U with MerlinWRT firmware). I love this router and the firmware. It's performance is good (both WLAN, as LAN). I had it configured with 2 wifi networks. One of them was for our own private use and the other one was for guests (both password shielded).
However, though it worked without issues, the performance was bad on the top floor. So I decided to purchase a 2nd router, which is placed on a cabinet on the 1st floor. The 2nd router is a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND (with DD-WRT firmware installed). The TP-Link router is connected by LAN (from my HP switch).
The TP-Link router should increase the wifi experience for both our own private wifi signal as the signal for guests. FYI: I disabled guest access on the Asus router completely, as the TP-Link router should take care of that.
Now I am running into many, many problems. One of them is, if you connect to the TP-Link router, I don't get internet for some reason. I really have no clue what I did wrong. I used the following tutorials:
This is the tutorial I used to setup the 'Wireless Access Point', I checked if this is what I needed and so far I can tell this is it: Wireless Access Point (Wiki DD-WRT)
After that I started searching on setting up a guest network. I thought I found an good and clear tutorial, but I think I am still doing something wrong. The tutorial I used for setting up Guest Wifi is located here: Guest Wifi Setup DD-WRT
Probably I made a mistake somewhere, somehow, but it's kinda hard to find this. Maybe I should change some settings on the main router as well, since that's not described anywhere. As you can see I really don't have an idea on how to proceed at all. So I am hoping someone on here can point me in the correct way.
A few things to notice or take in consideration (dunno if possible at all):
- I want both routers to be in the same IP range (192.168.0.x)
- both wifi signals have their own (but same) SSID, so 2 SSIDs in total
If you have comments or remarks about this, please, do share, I am always willing to learn and improve my network in general.
If you need any other information, or if I missed something, please let me know as well. I think I have been thorough, however it's only human to miss something.
After giving up yesterday on this (was getting late); I will try a different approach this evening. I will setup the 'Wireless Access Point' first (instead of doing them both straight after each other) and see if I can get internet at all.
Thank you in advance for your help and advice. And thank you for taking a look at my thread. Highly appreciated.
Side information; the reason for the guest network (with password) is because my girlfriend has a beauty parlour (correct wording for it?) on the top floor. So the guest network is mainly used for her clients. They "complained" about the internet connection (wifi) being slow. I checked it myself and indeed it was slow, slower than it should have been (probably too many floors, concrete and other obstacles in between). Same goes for our private signal in that area. That's the whole reason I bought a 2nd router.
