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Make TP-Link TL-WR841N a wireless range extender
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Using the stock firmware

  1. Connect to the primary router and set the 2.4 GHz network to a specific channel
    • The channels must be the same for WDS to work
  2. Connect to the router using a network cable
  3. If you're running OpenWrt, you'll need to flash the stock firmware
    1. Download the latest firmware for your hardware version from TP-Link's website
    2. Strip the stock firmware using dd; see the steps here: https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd#go_back_to_original_firmware
    3. Flash the stock firmware from LUCI
  4. Browse to the stock firmware web interface (192.168.0.1)
  5. Change the IP of the router
    • You'll need to do this first, otherwise the router may be more difficult to access once you've enabled WDS
    • You'll want the IP to be on the same network as your primary router, but have a different IP. For example, if your primary router is 192.168.0.1, you could set it to 192.168.0.2
  6. Follow the remaining steps here to enable WDS: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/227/

Using OpenWrt

https://bmaupin.github.io/wiki/archive/other/openwrt/openwrt-wds.html

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