How do I access the router config when in repeater?

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 4:25 pm

Hey all,

I recently tried to set up my router to repeat another wireless signal, and it works fine except that I can't access my router anymore. When I go to 192.168.1.1 it now takes me to the OTHER router's settings. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:55 pm

Any suggestions? I was trying to use my router as a wireless card since my desktop doesn't have wifi, so I set it to bridge and then connected it via an ethernet cable to my desktop. There are two problems with this:

1) I cannot access the web config anymore, since I don't remember what IP I assigned to my router, and the default gateway is showing the gateway for my other/bridged router.

2) The connection isn't consistent. Every 4 minutes or so I have to release/renew.

How do I get this to work, or at the very least get access to my config so I can use the router in AP mode again?

Thanks!

Post by **DoesItMatter** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 5:52 pm

Did you assign it via DHCP?

The main router should show all DHCP addresses given out,
has to be one of those.

Or - if you assigned a Static IP - you know .1 and .255 won't work,
so you have 253 other choices!

LOL

You might be able to get a ping tester and ping a range of IP's
to see which one responds to ping - that should be your bridged router.

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:58 pm

I *think* it was static, but I can't remember. My desktop is showing up on the other router's dhcp lease table rather than the bridging router. I've gone through many of the IPs, nothing seems to be resolving though. What am I supposed to do lol? Can I even flash my router back?

Edit: I've tried pinging with a batch script, nothing.

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:21 am

Anything? Can I at least wipe the firmware and reload it?

Post by **DoesItMatter** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:17 am

Lucky75 wrote:Anything? Can I at least wipe the firmware and reload it?

You have never stated what the repeater / bridged router is?

Some of them have the reset button working so you might be able
to do a full hardware reset on it using the reset button and reset
to defaults and then re-configure everything from scratch.

What model router?

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:15 pm

One of the older wrt54GL routers.

Post by **DoesItMatter** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:29 pm

Lucky75 wrote:One of the older wrt54GL routers.

I think Eric setup these routers to use the Reset button

Otherwise, you may have to do the TFTP recovery procedure.

You can use this one:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Re ... .2FGL.2FGS

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:40 am

Ah, ok. Thanks.

There's no way I can just gain access to my router without reflashing?

Lucky75 · Post by **Lucky75** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:02 pm

So, my Power light is ON, the DMZ light is ON, and port #1 light is blinking like it's sending data. Which method should I use? I can't ping the router to tftp, trying to reset via the reset button + power for 5s doesn't work either.

It LOOKS like the router is on and receiving wifi, I just don't know what ip it has or even what subnet it's on. What can I do?

Thanks!

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