Wireless bridging two routers

I have two routers. an airport express base station bought this earlier this year and a linksys WRT160N router. I am looking to bridge them wirelessly with the airport acting as the main router. It is upstairs with the broadband modem. The linksys router I have I would like to use downstairs and connect the bluray drive, directtv wireless box and xbox to the system. I have looked on the internet to help however I am still stuck on trying to have the linksys router "connect" to the airport and relay that signal.
I think the thing that gets me is not being able to correctly label the static IP address inputs. Under internet settings It asks for Internt IP address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DNS1 ( 2 and 3) are optional. In addition there is an option for network setup and that asks for Router IP address and subnet mask and DHCP server setting (which i assumed is disabled). Can someone help? Thanks in advance.

The issue is that most non-Apple routers are not compatible with Apple routers when it comes to extending their Wi-Fi range via a wireless connection ... and this is true the other way around.
The only option to extend your Linksys with the AirPort Express is to interconnect them by Ethernet and configure them for a roaming network.

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Remember: with a wireless bridge you create a single private network. All computers will be in the same network. Your neighbor will be able to access your computers (or at least try to).
Also: if you are using the wireless for clients (e.g. you have a wireless laptop) this will probably split throughput on the wireless in half as all traffic must be transmitted twice. Plus depending on the distance and the obstacles in the line of sight between the routers you may get a very slow unreliable connection.
Thus, if the houses are next to each other and you trust your neighbor I would simply run a cable (if this is possible). This way you have full speed internet access in your house, too.

WRT54GS Wireless security two routers (WDS)

2 WRT54GS
Wireless connection between routers.
No1 SSID test (connected to ADSL modem) disabled security
No2 SSID test1 disabled security
After some hard work I was able to make a wireless connection (50m/150ft) between two WRT54GS routers. But when I enabled security (WPA-TKIP) on the router (test1) that is't connected to the ADSL modem, it could't connect to intenet anymore, only to the secured router (test1).
I would be very happy for some tips how to enable wireless security on both routers.
Regards Jocke

Jocke wrote:
As far as I know the routers using the official firmware for both routers.
I took over a project that was started a while ago and the fore some reason it was't finished. The only thing thats left is to secure both routers.
Wireless Distribution System (WDS) compatible? Yes
http://whirlpool.net.au/index.cfm?a=h_view&model_id=363
Under the tab WDS I just added the wireless mac from the other router.
test added test1's wireless mac address as LAN
test1 added test's wireless mac address as LAN
Message Edited by Jocke on 06-29-2006 05:28 AM
My friend has the same router and we haven't noticed a WDS tab in the setup page of this router. Can you mention the exact firmware version installed on your router?

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anandp

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Hello.
I have wi-fi bridge between two routers TP-LINK WR841ND.
The name of this technology - WDS.
HP Laser JET 1536 dnf MFP connect to one of this routers (copper).
Second device (my NETBOOK) connect to second router (WiFi).
I have good communication between NETBOOK and HP Laser JET 1536 dnf MFP via WiFI-bridge.
In usual case NETBOOK can find (and can Ping) network printer and make a print some files.
But my Ipad or Iphone can't find HP Laser JET 1536 dnf MFP (using Eprint). Ipad and iphone connect
to router across WiFi.
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Are you using the ePrint Mobile App, the ePrint Printer Control App, or just trying to send an email to the printer's ePrint email address?
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• If any one of the bridge/link goes down, traffic will be diverted to other link automatically.
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no bridge-group 3 spanning-disabled
bridge 3 protocol ieee
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I have a trailer at a client that I'am trying to connect to the main building via a wireless bridge using two 1242 AP's. I'am trunking on the connection to each AP using dot1q. I don't mind all the vlans going to the trailer so I'am not limiting the vlans. What do I have to do on the AP's to get this to work exactly? Are there any guides on this? thanks
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Jeff

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I recently bought two Linksys WRT160Ns and created a wireless bridge according to http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge. I installed DD-WRT v24-sp1 (07/27/08) min.
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Hello all,
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other option is simple using L3 approach and change the ip address only for resourches you want other people to access.

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I have two routers Linksys (wrv200 and wrt110). One on one side of the house, the other will be at the other side od the house. Questions:
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