WL-500gP & WDS

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Originally Posted by Antiloop

have you tried WDS at all?

and how.. be more specific so people can eventual help you

no info means no help

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I have tried setting up the ASUS with the WDS features, but then I realised the other end (the KCORP) doesn't supoprt this feature (well, theres no mention of it in the manuals or any of the settings menus). And for that reason, I thought maybe 2 WL-500gP units would work as I know they both support it. Maybe I need to read up more on wireless technology in general!

On the ASUS I have been setting the Operation Mode to Access Point, giving the IP Config - LAN setting a static IP in my already present WLAN, then setting all the Wireless - Interface bits to the same as my already present WLAN (i.e. SSID, channel, no encryption for now) then the Wirless - Brdige I have set to Hybrid, with Connect to APs in Remote Bridge List to yes, Allow anonymous to yes (for now) and adding my already present WLAN router's MAC into the Remote Bridge List.

My already present WLAN router (the one made by KCORP) has no options for displaying its ARP table or doing ping tests, so its not very helpful in troubleshooting!

Cheers, J

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Originally Posted by elaerion

the only way to link them up wirelessly, is to use a wireless accesspoint that works as a bridge

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Hmmm, I think I definitely need to read up more on wireless technology and terminology. I'm ok with networking in general terms, subnets bridges and routers etc, but wirelesss is fairly new as you can probably tell.

Cheers, J

Hi,
I connected two WL500gP in WDS with WPA2 encription. I read here about some problems wtih that.
If its interesting, I'll write details here.
Best regards to All.

Hi,

yes i'm very interesting. Please send the details and outputs from this commands:
# wl wsec
# wl wpa_auth
# nvram show (you can remove passwords, keys and macs)

thanks
Best regards

Hi, tomekmik.
You know, it is possible to connect two 500gp together in WDS with WPA. But it worked only next morning after i tried unsuccessfully all the evening. And it worked only< as i think, after switching them off from the power. So, when I switched them on in the morning, it suddenly worked. But...but when there was a very short power failure in my house few days later, they lost communication. I had to disable encription and enable it again, reboot them and then they worked again.
But i definitely noticed, that also, when i switch off and back on a surge adapter, in which first 500gp and a cable modem (to which its connected) are plugged in, 500gp looses connection to the internet. So, i have to reboot it separately, and then it works.
So, unfortunately, there is a dependence from power in two cases:
1. connection between two 500gp with encription enabled,
2. connection between a modem and a 500gp, connected to it.

My firmware version is 1.9.6.9. Dont know, may be older firmware is more stable to power losses.
Both routers are in default - gateway modes. On both i left DHCP server enabled. And each has its own SSID. But, i also tried another combination:
first router in gateway mode with dhcp enabled. Second in AP mode without dhcp. And both had one SSID.
In all cases, they are unstable.
What you think?

hi,

i thought you are use the Oleg firmware.
How do you force the routers to use WPA2 and not WPA?
I'm use the version 1.9.2.7-7b but on wl-500g with WDS-WPA.
In this version WPA and WPA2 is enabled but my routers use only WPA and not WPA2.
Maybe you can try it with the Oleg firmware. I have only one WL-500gp for testing. :(
On the Comman Line you can set WPA2-Mode with:
# wl wpa_auth 128
The default is 132=4+128=WPA+WPA2

Hello everybody,

I tried to figure out my problem without bothering U - but i failed

I'm running a FritzBox7050 as Router and a WL500-gp as AP (AP mode) ind WDS mode. My internetconnection is 2000MBit DSL. no matter which laptop I use (my one, brother, friend) my WLAN connection through the WL500gp is extrem slooooooooooooooooooooooowly.

Connected to the Fritz7050 the WLAN has a DL-rate of about 250kByte/s
connected to the WL500gp it is in the range of 10-40kByte/s

What is wrong about the WL500gp?? Or is this the maximum this box can do??

Thanks for your help!!

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Hi.. i need some suggestion.. how to buy a working wds-repeating with wl500g Premium (broadcom). Cause i already buy Alcon asu24005g(artheros) and it fail repeating (wds).

I already see some article that it's work in WRT54G, but the signal it's to low :(
Any experince with Senao, Fulbond, Dlink with "High power"??
Thank you

As I already mentioned in another post: It is really hard to make routers of two different manufacturers communicate with each other via WDS - at least as long as you want a realiable encryption like WPA or WPA2.

The problem is, that WDS is a standard, but the implementation is up to every manufacturer. So the only way is in most cases to try it without any encryption or to use a (crossover) cable.

But maybe this is a good chance to start a WDS compatibility list - like the webcam compatibility list - to see which routers of other manufacturers work together with the Asus routers?

Hi
I want to connect my WL500G DELUXE to my 2Wire 2700HG home Gateway as a wireless access point so I can access my Topfield PVR. The ASUS requires entries in the 2Wire wireless set up for WDS but it doesn't support WDS. Is there a workaround?

Thanks

I've been working in two days to make two WL500g talk in a WDS. After hours reading here on wl500g.info I've found several solutions to the problem, but it seems that not all are working. Maybe it's boardrevision og corerevisions that differs how the firmware handles the WPA, I don't know.

Now it seems that my config is finally working.
According to other posts on this forum firmware supporting WPA-PSK TKIP and WDS is 1.8.1.7-3, 1.9.4.0b and 1.9.5.0b. I've tried them all, but none of them were working at first.

* Both routers have hybrid mode.
* Both routers have each others mac adress under remote bridge list.
* Both routers have static IP.
* Both routers are in Access Point operation mode (use seperat DHCP server).
* Both routers have the same channel (9).
* Both routers have same encryption settings (ofcourse).

I've been trying to have different SSID, but when I finally got over this page when I "googled" the problem, the problem was solved!

When telnet to my router and typed this
(I've removed my WPA key and replaced with stars)

Telnet command: cat /tmp/nas.lan.conf

nas -P /tmp/nas.lan.pid -l br0 -H 34954
-i eth2 -A -m 2 -k ******** -s MELING -w 2 -g 0

As described on the link above the WPA will NOT WORK with different SSID because it's a part of the WPA encryption.
When I sat the same SSID (in my case; MELING) on both my routers, it worked instantly!!!

I hope this may solve the problem for others as well.

Other posts on the forum here said that the SSID should not matter for WDS because it's only useing the MAC to connect to each other.

But the WPA seems to do matter about the SSID.

Anyone else have some comment to this?

I'll try it tomorrow

I just hope it works because I really need that...
and what about Hibryd mode? does it work with it or it works only with WDS

thanks

This one is posted also under the WL500g Premium forum, but made a copy here where it really belongs.

I've been working in two days to make two WL500g talk in a WDS. After hours reading here on wl500g.info I've found several solutions to the problem, but it seems that not all are working. Maybe it's boardrevision og corerevisions that differs how the firmware handles the WPA, I don't know.

Now it seems that my config is finally working.
According to other posts on this forum firmware supporting WPA-PSK TKIP and WDS is 1.8.1.7-3, 1.9.4.0b and 1.9.5.0b. I've tried them all, but none of them were working at first.

* Both routers have hybrid mode.
* Both routers have each others mac adress under remote bridge list.
* Both routers have static IP.
* Both routers are in Access Point operation mode (use seperat DHCP server).
* Both routers have the same channel (9).
* Both routers have same encryption settings (ofcourse).

I've been trying to have different SSID, but when I finally got over this page when I "googled" the problem, the problem was solved!

When telnet to my router and typed this
(I've removed my WPA key and replaced with stars)

Telnet command: cat /tmp/nas.lan.conf

nas -P /tmp/nas.lan.pid -l br0 -H 34954
-i eth2 -A -m 2 -k ******** -s MELING -w 2 -g 0

As described on the link above the WPA will NOT WORK with different SSID because it's a part of the WPA encryption.
When I sat the same SSID (in my case; MELING) on both my routers, it worked instantly!!!

I hope this may solve the problem for others as well.

Other posts on the forum here said that the SSID should not matter for WDS because it's only useing the MAC to connect to each other.

But the WPA seems to do matter about the SSID.

Anyone else have some comment to this?

Hi,

I'm also using wds with wpa (AES). I just tried the same SSID and it works perfectly. My only problem is the transfer speeds:


wl-500gp connected to a ADSL Modem:
connects a xbox (wired) and a Notebook 1 (wireless)

with wds
wl-500gx
connects a PC (wired) and a Notebook 2 (wireless)

By example between PC and Notebook 1 speed stays at 150 Kbytes/s

Configurations:

* Both routers have hybrid mode.
* Both routers have each others mac adress under remote bridge list.
* 500gp with static IP and 500gx get from DHCP (from 500gp)
* 500gp in Home Gateway mode and 500gx in Access Point operation mode.
* Both routers have the same channel (10).
* Both routers have same encryption settings (WPA-AES).

Anyone know any way to improve the speed with wds and 2 Asus 500?