how to Bridge two Asus Rt-56u

[GeoStar]

Hi

I have a dsl modem and rt-n56u, upstairs running a bunch of stuff
I also have another rt-56u running stuff in the basement .

I cannot get an ethernet wire down to the basement from the 2nd floor.

How do you Wirelessly bridge these two units on the 5 GHZ band? What is the procedure ?
what version firmware do I need ?

Thanks

 

[Greg_Elite]

I don't think you can because it doesn't support DD-WRT and that's not a supported feature.

 

[stevech]

Hi

I have a dsl modem and rt-n56u, upstairs running a bunch of stuff
I also have another rt-56u running stuff in the basement .

I cannot get an ethernet wire down to the basement from the 2nd floor.

How do you Wirelessly bridge these two units on the 5 GHZ band? What is the procedure ?
what version firmware do I need ?

Thanks

Rather than wireless, did you consider using either MoCA or HomePlug? See the forum here on that. Usually a better choice than a wireless bridge link.

 

[GeoStar]

Maybe but I have a scad load of X10 devices round the house being terorized by Mister house on the powerline already.

But I discovered that I had set up the rt=56u on 5 ghz bridge only last night. My problem was I had an old 2wire e client also running and they were fighting each other, Once i unpluged the 2wire the rt units talked the binay language of ap and bridge, It was easier than I thought and its seems robust for now.. I am plannig a cat5e assult on the ductwork withspecial duct rated cat5e wire.

Tell me if you want the steps to activate the bridge....

 

[SMLMark]

Two ASUS RT-N56U's

I have the same setup. Does anyone know how this was done?
Thanks!

 

[ikecomp]

I have the same setup. Does anyone know how this was done?
Thanks!

I don't have 2 56u's to test with or I would try this my self but check out the last post on the link below

from what I can tell you have to enter the MAC address of both routers in each other's Bridge setup page and set the client router to AP or Hybrid mode depending on what you want to do and then also disable the firewall on the client router. I assume you would also have to disable DHCP on the client router although that's not mentioned in the instructions linked or maybe it's done automatically based on what setting you use (AP Only, Hybrid)

http://forums.techarena.in/networking-security/1446711.htm

Let me know how it works out

 

[SMLMark]

I don't have 2 56u's to test with or I would try this my self but check out the last post on the link below

from what I can tell you have to enter the MAC address of both routers in each other's Bridge setup page and set the client router to AP or Hybrid mode depending on what you want to do and then also disable the firewall on the client router. I assume you would also have to disable DHCP on the client router although that's not mentioned in the instructions linked or maybe it's done automatically based on what setting you use (AP Only, Hybrid)

http://forums.techarena.in/networking-security/1446711.htm

Let me know how it works out

Thanks! I will give it another go this weekend and let you know.