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| Thread ID: 111853 | 2010-08-14 08:17:00 | Linksys wrt54gl with D-link DSL-604T | vk_dre (195) | Press F1 |
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| 1127667 | 2010-08-14 08:17:00 | Hi Everyone, It's been a bloody long time since I was on here but good to see the online help community alive and well . Anyways I purchased the wrt54gl today from DSE for a steal and I'm wanting to use it as the wireless router in series with my g604t which is dropping signal almost 3-4 times each day and requiring a router reset to set things right . I'm on Vodafone/Ihug and have been so for the past 5-6 years . I have two clients on LAN at home and about 4-5 on wlan . Is there anything in particular I should look out for before doing my intended changeover? I plan to turn wifi off and simply turn off dhcp etc on the g604t and leave that all up to the linksys . So basically my g604t will work as a modem while the linksys with extended antenna will work as my router . I also plan to put either tomato or dd-wrt onto the linksys so would love to hear if anyone has any preferences or recommends one highly over the other . Any info/help would be great . Cheers, V . K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 1127668 | 2010-08-14 08:30:00 | DD-WRT is best in my opinion. never used tomato but from the site it never really looked as good as DD | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1127669 | 2010-08-14 12:59:00 | DD-WRT is less than ideal for multiple reasons. Try Tomato or Gargoyle. Leave DHCP on, but just turn off the Wireless on the 604T. That way you can just plug the WAN port of the WRT54GL into the D-Link and you'll be away laughing :) Try this: c2s.co.nz |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1127670 | 2010-08-14 16:18:00 | Leave DHCP on, but just turn off the Wireless on the 604T. That way you can just plug the WAN port of the WRT54GL into the D-Link and you'll be away laughing :) Don't forget to give the Linksys a fixed IP and then set the DMZ, so that port forwarding will still work. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1127671 | 2010-08-15 12:01:00 | Hi Guys, I ended up going with Tomato as it seems to be more robust than DD . Everything went good on that end, but turning off DHCP on the g604t and proceeding like that didn't work so well . I eventually ended up doing exactly as Chill suggested and it works great . Just a quick question though, I was under the impression that I had to set up the Dlink as a half-bridge/bridge modem in order to link up to the wrt54gl . This didn't work at all? Is there any right or wrong way to do my setup? Is the method I currently have, simple turn off wlan on dlink and plug into wrt5gl, the quick and easy method as opposed to the "correct" method? I'll do as you suggested Agent . Thanks guys . Also was wondering if you guys have any particular hints on how i should approach the QoS settings? Cheers, V . K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 1127672 | 2010-08-15 20:50:00 | Half-bridging will basically take your public / real-world IP Address that the D-Link usually has, and pass it off to the WAN port of the WRT54GL. It's useful for avoiding doubel-NAT so you can do things like port-forwards etc If you're not doing port-forwarding, then don't worry about it. I also have a basic How-To for QoS: www.c2s.co.nz It's by no means complete, but it'll at least point you in the right direction. I'm looking at updating it and making another for Gargoyle at some point too. Interestingly enough it's not received many hits on my blog, but seems to get a bit more on the Elastix blog where I cross-posted it. Perhaps QoS is more of a specialist request? Anyways, just make sure that you're on either an ADSL2+ connection: telecomwholesale.co.nz I say this because most places that only have ADSL1 are overloaded at the exchange level, and you never get the full throughput that your modem syncs at, making QoS damn near impossible to use. It's when Chorus do the upgrade to ADSL2+ that they upgrade the backhaul AFAIK. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1127673 | 2010-08-16 09:29:00 | Hi Chill, That's what I'm wanting to do, I'd like to use some of the customisable internet filters available on tomato, for a younger nephew and niece, and they don't seem to work with the simple "plug and play" method of simply turning off wlan at the dlink and plugging into the wan of the linksys. Also, I've tried in vain to get the half bridge to work on the g604t but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it properly. I ended up with no net connection and having to restart the dlink and upload my saved settings. Do I need to setup a bridge filter as well in the g604t router page? Tearing my hair out. V.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 1127674 | 2010-08-16 10:26:00 | Nope, you don't need it to be bridged at all. You can still use the filters etc in Tomato or Gargoyle :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1127675 | 2010-08-17 06:21:00 | Turns out I wasn't setting the website filtering rules properly! All good now, cheers everyone! Btw, our neighbour has an unsecured wlan network and im pretty sure that my nephew and niece are already connecting to that having experienced the restrictions I set on our wlan network. Is there a way to somehow block our neighbour's wlan network? I guess I'd have to login to the kids laptops and fiddle around with these public networks and change some settings so it couldn't connect but are there any other easier ways? Cheers! Once again thanks for all the help so far guys! |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 1127676 | 2010-08-17 06:23:00 | Tell the neighbour to secure it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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