RT-N12 D1 : maybe i don't get it at all!

[Denis Filion]

Hi Asus users,
My Asus laptop is dead and I urgently need to connect my desktop to my LAN ,wireless (no wireless card, far away from the main router). I thought the RT-N12 D1 could do exactly that: i thought i could connect the RT-N12 D1 to my wireless network then plug together my desktop and the RT-N12 D1 using Ethernet and use the Repeator mode. But it does not seem to work, no Internet. Am I using the right device?

 

[L&LD]

No, you need to use a device that can give you Media Bridge mode. The RT-N12 D1 doesn't offer that mode.

 

[Denis Filion]

Thanks a lot you saved me loads of time

 

[Val D.]

i thought i could connect the RT-N12 D1 to my wireless network then plug together my desktop and the RT-N12 D1 using Ethernet and use the Repeator mode.

You can actually do that with RT-N12 D1 and stock firmware.
This router has Repeater Mode and it allows LAN connections, as far as I remember.

This same router also works well with Tomato firmware and Wireless Ethernet Bridge is available in Tomato. It was years ago and I can't be 100% sure, but I believe the firmware I was running on few of those was

tomato-K26-1.28.RT-N5x-MIPSR2-128-Max.trx from here:
https://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26RT-N/build5x-128-EN/Asus RT-Nxx/

...and this is Tomato by Shibby supported routers list:
https://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=69