Repeater on blue

Networking WiFi
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Hello, I am trying to increase the range of my wifi with a repeater. The dial-up works, but unfortunately I’m not getting any data transmitted. I have already searched the forum and seen the tip to leave the MAC address blank in the “Access to blue”. I have tried that, but unfortunately without success. Can you tell me how to set up the repeater so that it works? Thank you and best regards

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The ‘repeater’ should work in repeater mode, not access point mode.
( I used the terms of my TP-Link repeater )

In this mode the wifi connection should operate as if the end device communicate directly to your AP.

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Hello Bernhard, the repeater is in the repeater mode. But I don’t get access to the internet.

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My settings:

  • get IP from DHCP server ( IPFire )
  • DHCP server off
  • connect to IPFire
  • extended network: same SSID as IPFire ( host password and extended password are equal )

This is for a TP-Link WA860RE.

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Hello Bernhard, thank you very much. I wonder, why you take the same SSID for ipfire and for the repeater. How do you know, wich network you chose?

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The idea is just, that the end device can choose the communication partner with the known IPFire SSID ( and pw ) based on the signal.
A device near IPFire AP connects to IPFire directly, a device near the repeater connects to the repeater. In both situations the ‘login data’ ( SSID, password ) are the same.
There is an ‘middle’ area where both wifi device are accessible. But this border can be controlled by the transmit power ( of the IPFire AP and the repeater ).

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Some Repeaters alter the mac addresses of the clients so you have to disable the filter by allowing the whole blue network in cidr notation.

example: if you blue network is 192.168.17.x - 255.255.255.0 use a rule with 192.168.17.0/24 and a empty mac field.

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Thank you both, this seems to work!

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