Maybe i'm doing something wrong. My scenario is: the main router has 192.168.15.1 range. I wanna put the repeater in another range, like the default 192.168.1.1. I want this because on my main router has an tv connected to him, and on repeater another tv. Sometimes someone cast youtube/netflix videos to wrong tv, separating the networks will avoid this.
I try to connect the uplink to 5ghz (client) network and create 2ghz and 5ghz (master) with different SSID but if the same password, but is very inconsistent. Sometimes work, and sometimes not.
Can i revert back to stock firmware at this time?
In my archer c2 i experience the same inconsistent results.
I'm doing this: in 'interfaces -> lan' i put the gateway of the main router. in 'wireless' i scan the nearby networks (radio0) and connect to the main 5ghz network, at this time i can ping 8.8.8.8 with telnet, so get internet access. Than i create my sub 2/5ghz networks, and i do a lot of configs, with brigde, no bridge interfaces. Maybe i don't understand the concept of interfaces on OWRT, but i try a lot of things and really can't get working flawless.
Make static dhcp leases on main router for all of your devices, disable dhcp on re200, make all nets the same, create a firewall access rule, restrict mac adress of device to mac adress of tv. Voilla
Change the Source and Destination
Alternative you can restrict only protocol and port of casting device, so you can access other services on tv, if there are any
What you try has many disadvatages because of routing trough the nets, can do so but its complicated (for beginners)
Nice man! I will try this! The cast problem is one of the problem here. Truly, i wanna separate the main/router from the repeater. This is the reason i wanna OWRT on repeater, because the stock configuration lack this kind of control. But at the same time, the stock is much simple as 'set and forget'. OWRT is much powerful, but 'great power cames with great complexity...' It´s awesome what crap/simple device turns into gold/powerful one.
I'm reading some docs about OWRT to learn how everything work to understand what and how i can do those things.
If anyone is interested I just made a STOCK firmware with just one byte modified in rcS so that the telnet port is open. I think everybody here know the root password... RE200(EU)_V1_171206 with open telnet
question: for testing, I uploaded using tftp busybox-mips in /tmp
but it does not seem to work.
any clues?
another interesting thing is the shellc ommand flash which operates on the ralink internal spi-flash I think that is the key to enable/modify the maximum txpower level of wifi. I will dig it more.
Just for update, i got my Archer c2
(kind of topic) working fine repeating the signal connected to my router with 5g and create 2g access point with different ip range like i want, and this is enough to separate clients, so no cast to wrong tv anymore. At this point it solve my problem, and i do this for testing purpose to check the stability, and for now it working very good. Next week i will do with RE200.
@andyboeh Is there a roadmap / todo list for getting a stable release for the re200? Or will it happen automatically now, once the next release is made?
I tested flashing a modified openwrt-ramips-mt76x8-tplink_re200-v2-squashfs-factory.bin on RE200 V3 form stock webgui . Seems to be working . What do we need to do to get v3 in the wiki page for RE200?
@Flole was working on the v3, a bit of information should be in this thread. I had a longer private discussion with him and we even created a shared .dtsi in order to make it easier to support the v3. IIRC, the main difference are the LEDs and the safeloader definitions to enable installation from stock Web UI. I do not know if he has already created a PR on github or submitted the changes to the mailing list.
Regarding the Wiki: It's a Wiki, so you can add it to the Wiki on your own.
