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Neighbor to Neighbor Link
Both me and my next door neighbor have broadband, and a wireless router (both wrt54gs) and I want to link our two networks together, via cat5 or wireless ethernet bridge, so that we can share files, play lan games, etc.
No WDS: I'm currently running dd-wrt firmware v22 prefinal4, and have tried WDS multiple times and googled forever but it doesn't work. I'm giving up on WDS
Plan: have one router 192.168.1.1 and the other 192.168.2.1, and string a cat5 cable from router to router. Both have their own internet connection, so I'll have to plug the cable in on of the LAN ports. I'm essensially bridging 2 self contained networks.
Test Setup: Before I actually install this between me and my neighbor, I'm testing it with two spare wrt54gs routers i have (thank you ebay!), both loaded with dd-wrt firmware. I have the ip addresses setup like that of my PLAN, and a straighthrough cable going into each router's LAN1 port.
Problems: Both of the routers are on different subnets, how can I get them to recognise eachother? If I set the routers to RIP2, pc's can't access the internet. what should i do????
If i can get this working, another thing i'd like to do is a captive portal to a website. This firmware shows it supports this, but I don't know how to work it.
Please help!!! Thanks in advace!
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