Of course, that didn't solve the problem.

Post #405,214 by Another Scott 10/8/15 4:31:54 PM Reply	Of course, that didn't solve the problem. The $23 TL-WA801ND bridge/AP boxes were very easy to setup and configure, but the 3 of them don't work together with the C9. Sometimes ping times are very fast, sometimes they're over 500 ms. Sometimes I can connect to a different 801NDs, and sometimes I can't. WiFi connections from laptops, etc., to the internet work fine, but nothing attached to the 801NDs via Ethernet cables (via 8 port gigabit Ethernet switches) can be seen on the network. :-( What seems to be going on is that the C9 box apparently can't bridge to more than one additional wireless access point. I either need something that does point to multi-point bridging or it looks like I need to setup static routing. Things might have been a little easier if I'd gotten this TL-ER604W business-friendly gigabit router instead of the C9, but it seems to be of an older design (maxes out at 802.11n and is a single band device and doesn't do 802.11ac). It doesn't explicitly list point to multi-point bridging, but shows diagrams of similar things so it apparently can be made to do it (and someone in a comment at Amazon says they did it). Based on the C9 manual and the manuals for the $23 boxes, it looks like Static Routing is the way to go for the hardware I have. It looks like that's what I'll be working on over the long weekend. Wish me luck! :-/ Cheers, Scott.
Post #405,220 by boxley 10/8/15 6:24:53 PM Reply	static routing is always the best way to go for smaller configurations you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer
Post #405,232 by Another Scott 10/8/15 10:13:28 PM Reply	Static Routing seems to require using the LAN or WAN ports. :-( So, that won't work here, as I want to do things wirelessly. But I got it fixed, finally! Woot! The magic setting on the $23 boxes is to use "Universal Repeater" mode in the Wireless settings. Turning that on, clicking the Survey button, selecting the MAC of the C9 router's 2.4 GHz radio, and clicking Save takes care of the problem. I just had to do that 3 times, for the 3 cheap WAP boxes, and I'm done. Our printers work again. Yay! Our WiFi connections to our laptops still work. Yay! Running arp -a > 151008-arp-a.txt shows everything I expect on our home network in that text file. (Out of curiosity, I just looked at the manual for the TP-Link Archer C5 v2 (the client WAPs tried earlier in this thread) to see if there's a "Universal Repeater" mode or equivalent. There doesn't seem to be. So it looks like the WA801ND boxes (with an Ethernet switch) is the way to do "wireless bridging" with the C9 router). Thanks for your help, Box. I appreciate it. I hope this helps someone else out there. :-) Cheers, Scott. (Who is happy to get his weekend back!)
Post #405,233 by boxley 10/8/15 10:39:34 PM Reply	hmmm, not at home but think I can assign static ip to mac addys on the wireless will check next week when I get up there. in any case glad your are SOLVED! you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer
Post #405,235 by a6l6e6x 10/8/15 11:00:45 PM Reply	Woot! It has been a long haul for you. Perseverence pays off! Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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