Saturday, 13 July 2013 18:26
Connect Two Wireless Router Wirelessly ( Bridge ) using TL-MR3020
Explains how to bridge network using two wireless routers, the first (Host) router is configure as Access Point & the second router (TL-MR3020) is configure as Client mode. Same method should apply to all other OpenWRT routers as well.
Prerequisites
- Host router configure as Access Point. If you already setup a wireless internet connection in your house, usually your modem is configured as Access Point mode.
- A working OpenWRT on TP-LINK TL-MR3020 Portable 3G/4G Wireless N Router
The routers is configure as two different subnet, assume using settings below as the example.
- Host router IP: 192.168.1.1
- Host router subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 or 255.255.0.0 if you want to access 192.168.0.x from 192.168.1.x
- Host router SSID: ABC
- Client router IP: 192.168.0.1
- Client router subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
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Sunday, 07 July 2013 15:40
TP-LINK TL-MR3020 + OPENWRT + WEBCAM
This project uses an inexpensive TP-LINK TL-MR3020 Portable 3G/4G Wireless N Router with an Linux UVC supported camera to create an IP Camera that can be placed in a good location for surveillance.
Prerequisites
- A working OpenWRT on TP-LINK TL-MR3020 Portable 3G/4G Wireless N Router
- Microsoft LifeCam HD-5000 or any other Linux UVC supported cameras
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Sunday, 09 June 2013 15:11
Recover bricked TL-MR3020 Wireless N Router
After flashing the latest OpenWRT image file (openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3020-v1-squashfs-factory dated 03-Jun-2013), my TL-MR3020 is bricked. All the LED is keep on blinking (about 3 seconds once) except power LED, and the network is getting connected and disconnected every 3 seconds. Very lucky that the problem was fiexed by using serial console and Tftpd32 method.
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Friday, 07 June 2013 20:50
Extend WIFI Range with Another Router
With AP client router mode, it can connect to a wireless network and share the connection to its clients (see picture above). So you can use a router to extend the WIFI range.
Prerequisite
- Primary wireless router configure as AP. If you already setup a wireless internet connection in your house, usually your modem is configured as AP mode.
- Secondary wireless router (TL-WR1043ND or other DD-WRT compatible router) flashing with DD-WRT
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Wednesday, 05 June 2013 23:10
Flashing TP-Link TL-WR1043ND with DD-WRT
TP-Link TL-WR1043ND is one of the best 2.4GHz routers available, it has won numerous awards including "Best Product", "Best Wireless Router", "Editor's Choice" and "Best Design".
Using DD-WRT can make your network infinitely more stable and easier to tweak. Click here for more about DD-WRT.
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