Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Originally posted by: ttown
Has anyone set up bridging?
I'm trying to set bridging and am pretty much stuck.
Can anyone help me out with a sample set-up/configuration?
I put it in bridging mode, set the wds restriction to my other wifi-routers wlan mac address.
What else do I do?
Well, according to the documentation, the wds restriction settings need the mac addresses of the devices that are getting plugged into the router (in other words the things you "bridging" into the network, so any computer, game console, etc... not the mac address of the other routers, although it wouldn't be a bad idea to place them in there). You also need to set the SSID, channel, encryption type and encryption seeds to the same as the wireless network you are bridging into.
Also according to the manual, you do not need to use wds in order to bridge the networks. In fact, it is recommended that if you are only using the router as a bridge and not needing it to allow other wireless devices to connect to that router (due to signal strength or interference), that you do NOT use bridged mode and wds as it appears to use a lot of extra computing power and restricts the network bandwidth on the "bridge" connection between this router and the other wireless router it is connecting with (well, it doesn't come right out and say that, but if you read between the lines and notice that you can't enable a bunch of other features like higher levels of encryption security while both "bridge" and "wds" are enabled, you will be able to come to the same conclusions that I just stated above, it uses a lot of extra processing power).