Trying to use an old router as a wireless bridge

[NeoDevin]

I recently rearranged my house, and now the most convenient place to set up my computer is unfortunately inconvenient to run a wire to.

Fortunately, I have an old router lying around (Linksys E2500), that I figured I could use as a bridge, and while it wouldn't be as fast as connecting a wire directly, it would be better than nothing, for now.

I set up DD-WRT on the E2500 following the instructions here. This step appears to have been successful, and I went with the "mega" version.

I then followed the instructions here, to try to set up the bridge, but after following all of the instructions there, I am unable to connect to my primary router. (From my ISP, a Cisco DPC3825 DOCSIS 3.0 Gateway). If I give my computer a static IP address, I can connect to my E2500, but not the primary router. Can't even ping it. Any suggestions what might be causing the issue?

Thanks in advance.
Devin

 

[NeoDevin]

Ok, so I got things working by setting it up as a repeater, following these instructions. Means my desktop is on a different subnet, but that's not a big deal.

Just thought I'd update, in case anyone else comes across this post.

 

[Routaran]

I had a similar problem with my ISP provided router, very similar to your's not but I'm not sure if it was the same DOCSIS 3.0 gateway. Anyway, I couldn't get my router to work as a bridge either but when I tried to do it with two DDWRT routers, it worked. Perhaps its the gateway that's somehow causing an issue?

 

[NeoDevin]

My understanding is that it should be completely independent of the gateway (I could be wrong on this, though). Unfortunately, I don't have another router handy to test it out.

When you tried with two DD-WRT routers, did you try it with everything set exactly the same as your ISP's gateway?

 

[Routaran]

I first configured the two routers independent of the gateway. IIRC the gateway was using the address 192.168.0.1 for internal addressing. I just had the two routers use 1.1 for the last two octets. I left the gateway as is so that I could continue to use the internet if I needed to search for anything while setting up the routers.

Once i had the two routers working together properly, then i called my ISP and had them disable all the router functionality of the gateway and plugged in the primary into the gateway and moved the secondary elsewhere in the house.