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Strange behaviour: If I use the Wireless Bridge/Repeater Option, it DOES connect to the main router via DHCP.

That doesn't help me, because I need to have the setup described in my first post. But it is clearly strange...

Perhaps, if you activate the 'force clients to use router's dns servers' option, it will work without any client modifications. But I cannot assure it. ;) ------------------------------------------ Eventuell funktioniert es auch ohne Änderungen am Client, wenn du 'force clients to use router's dns s...

To keep the ongoing discussion understandable, here the translation of my message below: That was exactly one of the issues I had. Now there are two possibilities how it occured and how I fixed it. As already mentioned, perhaps the DNS servers are set wrong. The notebook doesn't get an IP address fr...

You need to connect that TP-Link to the main router via LAN cable and verify that it will get issued a DHCP IP through wired connect. If it won't get a DHCP IP wired, try flashing back to stock firmware then do another test. I will test this later. By the way - is that a valid MAC address? WAN MAC ...

pbix wrote:So how do you know that your main router supports DHCP?

My notebook and my smartphone can connect to the main router without any problems. They both get their IP address via DHCP, so I guess the main router's DHCP works fine.

Hello Max, that sounds similar to my problem (when I used the static IP since using DHCP did't work). See also my topic DHCP doesn't work for a working configuration. You have to set your main router as a custom DNS server. That will temporarily fix the problem. ;) Also greetings from Germany, David.

Now, after one hour of waiting, it clearly doesn't connect via DHCP (wireless). What it says: WAN IP Address: WAN Netmask: WAN MAC Address: F6:EC:38:CB:5B:DF WAN Gateway IP: WAN DNS Server(s): 192.168.1.1 So, it doesn't work and I don't have any idea why (and I do not know how this wrong DNS server ...

Good idea. I will try this later and give it hopefully enough time to connect.

pbix wrote:You did not mention what router you are using.

I'm using a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND.

I will post the result as soon as I'm done.

Hello there, my setup: A WLAN router I don't have access to, my own WLAN router and several devices that need to connect to it. what I want: Because some of my devices only have a LAN port, I wanted to use my router to connect wirelessly to the other one. Now my router should create a new subnetwork...