I want to connect 3 wireless routers wirelessly. I live in Switzerland and have a Samsung set top box from UPC Cablecom (Horizonbox, http://www.oliver-staehli.ch/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/UPC-Horizon-TechSpec1.jpg at this link you can see the specs) which provides the internet connection, so a modem + router.
I also have a Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std and a TP-Link tl-mr3420 ver 1.2 with factory firmware.
What I want to do is to connect these 3 wirelessly. Wirelessly because the LAN cable is only 100 Mbps and my internet connection is 150 Mbps. I never reach that speed, but correct me if I'm wrong, it can make a difference. If no, I still want to connect at least the Linksys and TP-Link routers wirelessly.
How to do that? I already connected the Samsung set top box with wire to both devices, but we live in a 2 storey apartment and I want a secondary router downstairs, so the rest of the family can also have a good connection and I will not put a cable through the apartment.
My other issue, basically the reason why I do this in the first place is that the set top box and my laptop's wifi adapter have a connection problem. I have tried older firmware, new firmware for my wifi adapter, but not working. I do have a separate wifi adapter but hey, it is a laptop with wifi built-in, so why should I plug in an extra adapter?
A new reason why I do this, is because I am using a VPN from Private Internet Access and the Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std can easily handle that.
So there are 2 more things.
1: in case all 3 devices will be connected wirelessly considering my internet speed, then I want to somehow be able to restrict either the set top box or my laptop to connect to each other, just to another device. How to do that? Plus how to connect my other devices to a specific router? Should I make separate sub-networks? Or just assign a MAC filter to the specific router? Or set up a static IP? I use WPA2-Personal, MAC filter, hide the SSID. Any good suggestions?
2: maybe a little bit off-topic, but how can I configure my VPN to either automatically select the gateway with the smallest latency or to give it multiple gateway choices and let it select the one which is available? I sent an email to Private Internet Access costumer support, and they said I should write a script. I am not experienced with writing scripts, but here in the community I hope to find someone who can help me with this too. The reason why I want to do this is because the Switzerland gateway is down many times, but I want to use that, if no then the Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, UK gateways are also fine. How to write a script for that?
So again: connecting 3 routers wirelessly, denying the set top box to connect with my main laptop, if possible then writing a script to auto select or select best gateway for VPN.
Hope I was clear enough about my issue. It is the first time I am writing to this or basically any forum. Because my case is a little complex I wrote a separate topic to it.
I also have a Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std and a TP-Link tl-mr3420 ver 1.2 with factory firmware.
What I want to do is to connect these 3 wirelessly. Wirelessly because the LAN cable is only 100 Mbps and my internet connection is 150 Mbps. I never reach that speed, but correct me if I'm wrong, it can make a difference. If no, I still want to connect at least the Linksys and TP-Link routers wirelessly.
How to do that? I already connected the Samsung set top box with wire to both devices, but we live in a 2 storey apartment and I want a secondary router downstairs, so the rest of the family can also have a good connection and I will not put a cable through the apartment.
My other issue, basically the reason why I do this in the first place is that the set top box and my laptop's wifi adapter have a connection problem. I have tried older firmware, new firmware for my wifi adapter, but not working. I do have a separate wifi adapter but hey, it is a laptop with wifi built-in, so why should I plug in an extra adapter?
A new reason why I do this, is because I am using a VPN from Private Internet Access and the Linksys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT v24-sp2 (10/10/09) std can easily handle that.
So there are 2 more things.
1: in case all 3 devices will be connected wirelessly considering my internet speed, then I want to somehow be able to restrict either the set top box or my laptop to connect to each other, just to another device. How to do that? Plus how to connect my other devices to a specific router? Should I make separate sub-networks? Or just assign a MAC filter to the specific router? Or set up a static IP? I use WPA2-Personal, MAC filter, hide the SSID. Any good suggestions?
2: maybe a little bit off-topic, but how can I configure my VPN to either automatically select the gateway with the smallest latency or to give it multiple gateway choices and let it select the one which is available? I sent an email to Private Internet Access costumer support, and they said I should write a script. I am not experienced with writing scripts, but here in the community I hope to find someone who can help me with this too. The reason why I want to do this is because the Switzerland gateway is down many times, but I want to use that, if no then the Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, UK gateways are also fine. How to write a script for that?
So again: connecting 3 routers wirelessly, denying the set top box to connect with my main laptop, if possible then writing a script to auto select or select best gateway for VPN.
Hope I was clear enough about my issue. It is the first time I am writing to this or basically any forum. Because my case is a little complex I wrote a separate topic to it.