I've run myself in circle on this one so go easy, not sure what I'm doing!
So we have a new outbuilding in which I'm trying to set up Wi-Fi. The router in the outbuilding (slave) is running DD-WRT has a wired connection to the main one in the house (master), and will be broadcasting its own signal. The master is a BT Home Hub.
What I would like to do is set up the slave so that anyone moving from the house (having connected to the master) will be seamlessly connected to the slave once they move into the outbuilding. I believe what I'm trying to set up is a second Access Point, as described in the second option on this guide, with same SSID but different channel etc.
The IP address of the master is 192.168.1.254, so as per the guide I set local IP of the slave to 192.168.1.255 (I also tried to other lower number like 222). I changed other setting such as disabling DHCP etc. When I do that though, I then can't access the log in page of the slave (and a wired connection to the slave doesn't show me the slave's IP address, it just self-assigns an IP to the connected computer).
So three questions.
Is a second Access Point what I'm after to achieve the desired set-up?
If not, what should I be doing?
If yes, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks a million.
So we have a new outbuilding in which I'm trying to set up Wi-Fi. The router in the outbuilding (slave) is running DD-WRT has a wired connection to the main one in the house (master), and will be broadcasting its own signal. The master is a BT Home Hub.
What I would like to do is set up the slave so that anyone moving from the house (having connected to the master) will be seamlessly connected to the slave once they move into the outbuilding. I believe what I'm trying to set up is a second Access Point, as described in the second option on this guide, with same SSID but different channel etc.
The IP address of the master is 192.168.1.254, so as per the guide I set local IP of the slave to 192.168.1.255 (I also tried to other lower number like 222). I changed other setting such as disabling DHCP etc. When I do that though, I then can't access the log in page of the slave (and a wired connection to the slave doesn't show me the slave's IP address, it just self-assigns an IP to the connected computer).
So three questions.
Is a second Access Point what I'm after to achieve the desired set-up?
If not, what should I be doing?
If yes, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks a million.