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docs:guide-user:network:wifi:connect_client_wifi [2022/08/17 13:59] – [Web interface instructions] Refresh for 21.02 LuCI - part 1 bill888docs:guide-user:network:wifi:connect_client_wifi [2022/08/18 04:23] – [Web interface instructions] bill888
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 ===== Web interface instructions ===== ===== Web interface instructions =====
  
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-Disconnect and connect again to the device (when you change the IP you need to do this).+\\ 
  
 We will now set up the client Wi-Fi network, the configuration needed to connect to another Wi-Fi network.\\  We will now set up the client Wi-Fi network, the configuration needed to connect to another Wi-Fi network.\\ 
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-Enter the Wi-Fi password, leave the "name of new network" as "wwan" and select **wan** firewall zone. Click Save. If you have no *wan* firewall zone you need to create it, don't save the Wi-Fi configuation and see the next step.\\+   * If there is no *wan* firewall zone you need to create it, don't save the Wi-Fi configuration.  Go to bottom of this section describing how to create *wan* firewall zone. 
 +   Enter the Wi-Fi password, leave the "name of new network" as "wwan" and select **wan** firewall zone.  
 +   Click Save.  
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-If you have no "wan" firewall zone you must create itClick on Network and then on Firewall, then click on the Add button, and set up the new zone as you see in the following screenshot (which is a default wan firewall interface),\\+/*** lede17 image 
 +{{:docs:guide-user:wifirepeater_clientwifi_settings.png|}}\\  
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-{{:docs:guide-user:network:wifi:firewall_settings.png|}}\\ Note that in "Covered networks" you will probably have "**lan**and "**wwan**" instead of the ones shown in the screenshot. My router (used for the screenshothas WAN ethernet ports and a default wan firewall zone already, and also I'm doing a tethering with my smartphone. If you are doing this step you probably don't have either.+You will land in the client Wi-Fi settings page.  Edit as required.\\  
 +The most important settings are on the **Operating Frequency** line.\\  
 +  * Set the **Mode** to **Legacy** if you are connecting to a Wi-Fi g network, or **N** if you are connecting to a Wi-Fi n (and so on).\\  
 +  Set the **Width** to the same value that you set on the Wi-Fi you are connecting to (to avoid bottlenecking the connection for no reason). 
 +  * Do **NOT** change the wifi channel number ! 
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-After you have done this, go back and repeat the other steps to add and save the Wi-Fi connection.+\\ {{media:docs:howto:relay_join_wifi_5.jpg?500|}} \\ 
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 +Press **Save** \\   
 +Press **Save & Apply**. \\   
 +Configuration is now complete. 
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 +This is the final result. Note how the client network has a ? instead of a IP address. \\   
 +The wwan IP address is only visible in the Network Interfaces page. 
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-{{:docs:guide-user:wifirepeater_clientwifi_settings.png|}}\\ You will land in the client Wi-Fi settings page, set other things as needed.\\ The most important settings are on the **Operating Frequency** line.\\ Set the **Mode** to **Legacy** if you are connecting to a Wi-Fi g network (like in my example) or **N** if you are connecting to a Wi-Fi n (and so on).\\ Set the **Width** to the same value that you set on the Wi-Fi you are connecting to (to avoid bottlenecking the connection for no reason).+ 
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 +:!: This step should not be necessary if you had reset the router to OpenWrt defaults.  If you have no "wan" firewall zone you must create it.  
 +   * Click on Network and then on Firewall, then click on the Add button, and set up the new zone as you see in the following screenshot (which is a default wan firewall interface),\\ 
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 +{{:docs:guide-user:network:wifi:firewall_settings.png|}}\\  
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 +\\ {{media:docs:howto:wireless_client_wan_zone.jpg?800|}} \\ 
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 +/*** 
 +Note that in "Covered networks" you will probably have "**lan**" and "**wwan**" instead of the ones shown in the screenshot. My router (used for the screenshothas WAN ethernet ports and a default wan firewall zone already, and also I'm doing a tethering with my smartphoneIf you are doing this step you probably don't have either. 
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 +After you have done this, go back and repeat the other steps to add and save the Wi-Fi connection. 
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 ===== Command-line instructions ===== ===== Command-line instructions =====
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