Just wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I can approach
this requirement:

I want to feed the available internet from room B to room A,
wirelessly.

Currently, room A is DSL/router connected to an unmanaged
switch that serves my wired devices fine. Wireless is also
sufficient. But.. the DSL is scheduled to be decomissioned.

Meanwhile, I have fibre internet installed in room B. There
really wasn't a proper way to wire fibre to room A. So, I am
left with a wireless solution to send the internet to room A.

The fibre is terminated with a Deco x50, provided by the ISP.

Sure.. I can probably expense for another Deco x50, but that
would be added cost of atleast $150 that I hoped I could avoid
if I could set up a wireless bridge with existing routers.

The Deco x50 is pretty much dumbed down and can't really be
configured beyond setting its own primary IP address and the
start-range for DHCP.

I have a sr516ac that I hoped I could connect next to the Deco
x50 in room B and send the internet via wireless bridge method
to room A.

How should the sr516ac be properly connected? Should it use its
WAN port to the Deco x50, or the LAN port? And what should the
IP address be set up as?

The Deco x50 is currently 192.168.68.1 ..and begins serving
clients at 192.168.68.51 and up.

Room A is currently served with a DSL modem, an sr360n,
configured as 192.168.1.1. I have several devices that have
static IP addresses as 192.168.1.2, .8 .11 and .44

The sr360n can "see" the sr516ac during the wireless bridge
rescan. It seems that I all I would have to do is allow the
sr360n to associate as a bridge to the sr516ac. But I am still
not sure with the IP addresses need to be and which physical
ports I need to connect the sr516ac to the Deco.

Can anyone help?
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On 29 Apr 24 19:05:00, August Abolins said the following to All:

I want to feed the available internet from room B to room A,
wirelessly.

Get two routers that are specifically designed to do Wifi meshing ie. the Asus GT-AC5300 family; which will also get rid of that stupid ISP-issued router.

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to August Abolins <=-

Get two routers that are specifically designed to do Wifi meshing ie.
the Asus GT-AC5300 family; which will also get rid of that stupid ISP-issued router.

I've used one of these WiFi extenders before. Easy, cheap, and better than dealing with two routers.

TP-Link AC750 Dual Band: https://tinyurl.com/u7j7n26p (amazon.com)

"TP-Link WiFi Extender with Ethernet Port, Dual Band 5GHz/2.4GHz , Up to 44% more bandwidth than single band, Covers Up to 1200 Sq.ft and 30 Devices,
signal booster amplifier supports OneMesh (RE220)"

USD$19.99

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Hello Digimaus!

** On Tuesday 30.04.24 - 20:51, Digimaus wrote to Nick Andre:

TP-Link AC750 Dual Band: https://tinyurl.com/u7j7n26p (amazon.com)

"TP-Link WiFi Extender with Ethernet Port, Dual Band 5GHz/2.4GHz , Up to 44% more bandwidth than single band, Covers Up to 1200 Sq.ft and 30 Devices, signal booster amplifier supports OneMesh (RE220)"

USD$19.99

A friend of mine has had issues with his RE220 simply dropping
the connection at times. He writes, "the RE220 occasionally
goes offline and needs to be reset"

Anyway.. I decided to feed ethernet after all. The result
ain't 100% pretty, but about 80% looks fine after my hack
install. There is a small section that needs to cross about 4
ft of carpet. I can probably cover that with a proper cable
cover. Then there is about another 8 ft that can sit loose
under a counter to the switch that feeds the rest of my wired
network.

I will never really need the wifi capability of the deco. Too
bad I can't turn that off.

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Re: trying to bridge/link two routers wi
By: August Abolins to Digimaus on Wed May 01 2024 09:43 pm

Anyway.. I decided to feed ethernet after all. The result ain't 100% pretty, but about 80% looks fine after my hack install. There is a small section that needs to cross about 4 ft of carpet. I can probably cover that with a proper cable cover. Then there is about another 8 ft that can sit loose under a counter to the switch that feeds the rest of my wired network.

You won't regret it. I tried extenders and 2 different generations of powerline adapters and ran into niggling issues each time. I had 2 Cat6 runs put in between floors (and I'm glad I had them done professionally!) and have an AP on one floor that also serves as a switch for my homelab, and another router on the other end that's an internet gateway. It's trouble-free.
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Hello Kurt,

01 May 24 19:16, you wrote to August Abolins:

Re: trying to bridge/link two routers wi
By: August Abolins to Digimaus on Wed May 01 2024 09:43 pm

Anyway.. I decided to feed ethernet after all. The result ain't
100% pretty, but about 80% looks fine after my hack install. There
is a small section that needs to cross about 4 ft of carpet. I can
probably cover that with a proper cable cover. Then there is about
another 8 ft that can sit loose under a counter to the switch that
feeds the rest of my wired network.

You won't regret it. I tried extenders and 2 different generations of powerline adapters and ran into niggling issues each time. I had 2
Cat6 runs put in between floors (and I'm glad I had them done professionally!) and have an AP on one floor that also serves as a
switch for my homelab, and another router on the other end that's an internet gateway. It's trouble-free.

this ^
any other hacks/extenders are just sh1t

Regards,
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