Wireless Bridge Creation

[Metronom]

I need to bridge my Huawei HG530 (main router) with a Netgear N150 WN604 (Access Point). Other discussions about this topic that I've been reading did not help, either because those solutions just did not work or because were a bit too complicated.
Notice that by "I need to bridge" I mean a wireless bridge, not the access point wired to the router, just to prevent misconceptions.

Does someone out there have more or less accurate ideas on how to do this?

 

[boosted1g]

Your post is not entirly clear on what you want to do.

You have your primary router, and an access point; problem is that you cant connect the access point via ethernet so you want to install a wirless bridge between the router and the access point??

Is that correct?

 

[plaintuts]

You need a wireless repeater..

Basically to increase the range of your signal, to repeat or clone the ssid from the main router.

You will need another router with this function.

 

[boosted1g]

Here is the easiset thing to do, and will be much better doing this + access point vs just using a crappy repeater.

Get this guy and configure it as a bridge:
http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-PicoStation-2-4GHz-802-11g-Access/dp/B0055PKSG6

Then connect ethernet to your conigured access point and everything should work fine.

You can also use a router flashed to DD-WRT as a wireless bridge.

This is better then a repeater beacsue first of all, residential grade repaters just dont work worth a crap, when they do work a repeater only has half the bandwidth because of having to split its resources from talking to router and then talking to client devices.

 

[Metronom]

Your post is not entirly clear on what you want to do.

You have your primary router, and an access point; problem is that you cant connect the access point via ethernet so you want to install a wirless bridge between the router and the access point??

Is that correct?

Totally correct.

 

[Metronom]

Tho I did not ask for alternative solutions to a problem I didn't even explain, I asked how to do what I need to...

 

[Metronom]

You need a wireless repeater..

Basically to increase the range of your signal, to repeat or clone the ssid from the main router.

You will need another router with this function.

As far as I know that's what an access point can do (in another way)...?

 

[boosted1g]

All the devices do the same purpose of creating an extension to a network.

Access Point: Ethernet In, ethernet and wifi out
Bridge: WiFi in, ethernet out
Repeater: WiFi in, WiFi out (some also have ethernet out).

A repeater (also called range extender) is a crappy performing device because they have to split their bandwidth between talking to the router and to the client devices. Commercial grade repeaters have two radios, one of which acts as a bridge, the other one acts as an access point. Not to mention all the residential grade repeaters people have asked me to try to setup in the past are all low-power, unstable pieces of garbage.

Your question was how to bridge the router/A.P and so I said the best option for reliability is to either use a router flashed with dd-wrt as a brdige or something like that ubiquiti picostation.