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docs:guide-user:network:wifi:relay_configuration [2024/06/22 06:02] – Edit "Create Relay Interface" richb-hanoverdocs:guide-user:network:wifi:relay_configuration [2024/06/22 06:26] – Final editorial pass richb-hanover
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-==== More Testing ====+==== Enable the AP ==== 
 +Enable and configure the Wi-Fi extender to be an access point for local devices.
  
-After the Wi-Fi extender reboots, change your computer back to DHCP client mode +  * Go to **Network -> Wireless** 
-(still connected to the extender via Ethernet.)+  * Click **Edit** button for any item with **Mode: Master**. (Don't edit your Client connection to the main router.) 
 +    * In the Interface Configuration section, configure SSID, security and other parameters of your Wi-Fi extender so it can act like an access point.  
 +    * If you are configuring the same radio that also serves as the client connection to the main router, ensure the **Operating frequency** matches the Client network. 
 +    * Click **Save** 
 +  * **Enable** the wireless network. 
 +  * You might edit/enable other radios (for example, enabling both the b/g/n and n/ac/ax/etc. radios) 
 +  * Click **Save & Apply**. 
 + 
 +==== You're Done - More Testing ==== 
 + 
 +After configuring the Wi-Fi extender's AP, change your computer back to DHCP client mode 
 +and connect to the newly-configured Wi-Fi.
 Your computer should be fully on the internet, having acquired a DHCP IP address from your main router.  Your computer should be fully on the internet, having acquired a DHCP IP address from your main router. 
-The Wi-Fi extender can be managed through its static wwan IP address (eg. 192.168.1.30) +The Wi-Fi extender can be managed through its static ''wwan'' IP address (eg. 192.168.1.30) 
  
 The **Status -> Overview** window (image below) shows the final result. The **Status -> Overview** window (image below) shows the final result.
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-==== Enable the AP ==== 
-Enable and configure the Wi-Fi extender to be an access point for local devices. 
- 
-  * Navigate to the wireless networks page 
-  * Click **Edit** button for the network with "Mode: Master" 
-  * **Enable** the wireless network in the Interface Configuration and make sure the **Operating frequency** matches your upstream router (the settings must be the same as for the Client network). 
-  * In the Interface Configuration section, configure SSID, security and other parameters of your repeater AP. 
-  * Click Save and Save & Apply. 
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-==== Check Firewall zones ==== 
- 
-:!: The following part of the configuration should not be necessary (already default options or changed automatically), in case something isn't working check this too.  
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-/*** redundant instructions 
- 
-Under the **Network** tab, click on the **Firewall** tab. Under **Zones**, change the forwarding for **lan** and **wwan** to **accept** 
- 
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-:!: if you are doing this with a device that has a single radio, both Wi-Fi networks will stay on the same channel, and total bandwidth will be halved as the same radio is used for 2 different Wi-Fi networks. 
  
-***/ 
 ===== Setup with CLI ===== ===== Setup with CLI =====
  
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 ===== Troubleshooting ===== ===== Troubleshooting =====
-==== Accessing the OpenWrt device ==== +==== Accessing the Extender ==== 
-If you find the OpenWrt device itself is only accessible from those computers directly connected to the W-LAN AP, not from the ones connected to the OpenWrt W-LAN client, when in the 192.168.1.0 subnet, Make sure the ''Local IPv4 address'' setting in the ''Relay bridge'' interface matches the ip address of the wireless uplink.+If you find the Wi-Fi extender itself is only accessible from those computers directly connected to the W-LAN AP, not from the ones connected to the OpenWrt W-LAN client, when in the 192.168.1.0 subnet, Make sure the ''Local IPv4 address'' setting in the ''Relay bridge'' interface matches the ip address of the wireless uplink.
 (The alternative is tedious: It is possible to access the OpenWrt box via its ''192.168.2.1'' address if you manually configure your computer to that subnet.) (The alternative is tedious: It is possible to access the OpenWrt box via its ''192.168.2.1'' address if you manually configure your computer to that subnet.)
 +
 +==== Check Firewall zones ====
 +
 +:!: The following part of the configuration should not be necessary (already default options or changed automatically), in case something isn't working check this too. 
 +
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 ==== Adding IPv6 support ==== ==== Adding IPv6 support ====
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