I have AT&T U-verse. I just got a U.S. robotics router for free and put DD-WRT on it so i can use it as a bridge. When I plug my blu-ray player into it can access the internet and stream netflix. When I plug in a laptop or any other computer, it doesn't get any kind of connection.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

8/14/2010 8:59:58 PM

How do you have DDWRT setup, are you getting IP addresses, etc.

Have you tried a static IP address on the computer?

8/14/2010 9:07:52 PM

yes.

8/14/2010 9:56:31 PM

Sorry,

No I haven't tried a static ip. Should I try that through the U-verse router?

8/14/2010 10:38:59 PM

You need to know what DHCP pool the IP addresses are coming from.
When you say laptops or computers don't get any kind of connection, do you mean that they aren't even getting a link light?

8/15/2010 12:51:31 AM

They are, and I can access both router pages...just not the internet.

8/15/2010 1:12:18 AM

^you're most likely having an IP/DHCP conflict.

Are you using repeater, client bridge or ? in DDWRT? Depending you may or may not need DHCP on the DDWRT router. If it has DHCP on make sure it's in a different network segment, like 192.168.2.xxx

(Ignore instructions, they're outdated - just for reference)


http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridged

[Edited on August 15, 2010 at 2:02 AM. Reason : link]

8/15/2010 2:00:14 AM

^Yeah, I've seen that. I turned of DHCP. I definitely agree it's some sort of IP conflict. I just think I've tinkered with every setting and it's still giving me problems.

I followed this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud-Hq3kgvk4

Should the second router have a static ip assigned in the first router?

[Edited on August 15, 2010 at 8:49 AM. Reason : ]

8/15/2010 8:45:28 AM

Quote :

"The 2Wire gateway has problems with devices that are multihomed (i.e. have only one MAC address, but multiple IP addresses). This is the problem with a wireless client bridge. To the 2Wire router, the bridge looks like 1 device. But if you have two devices behind it, that becomes multiple IPs on one MAC address and that won't work with the 2Wire. The only way around this is to configure your DD-WRT client to do full NAT so that it appears as one client device with only 1 IP address to the 2Wire, or use two DD-WRT wireless routers in a bridge configuration that maintains the IP addresses and MAC addresses from the other side of the wireless bridge."

That's what AT&T said. .I really don't know how to configure that way. Can anyone help?

8/15/2010 1:34:23 PM

OH, 2 WIRE, lol - they make crap. I lament the one Embarq has us using

On our setup (sounding EXACTLY like yours now) here's what I have: Our 2wire caches mac addresses and always sends them the same IP - I'll assume yours is doing the same (rough equivalent of static IP's - but I'd set one to make sure) I have my linksys as the DMZ (only way this will work on a 2Wire).

The linksys has it's client settings programmed in; IP address/subnet/gateway (the 2wire address - 192.168.1.254 probably). For serving the linksys serves ip addresses on the 192.168.2.xxx segment, has DHCP enabled, and NAT enabled. Firewall/stateful packet also enabled.

Basically I have the linksys as a router, but instead of being wired it's connected to the 2wire network as a client. Ours never worked until I set the linksys to assign IP's in the new segment, most likely due to the same reasons you're having.

8/15/2010 3:06:21 PM

yeah I wish At&T offered something else.

8/15/2010 4:14:55 PM

^^They should have phased the 2wire out, especially if you're somehow caught up in CenturyTel's policy for mandatory leasing of equipment. Just call and get a 660HW or buy a 660R for 30 bucks on ebay.

^I think there's a full bridge mode for most of those 2 wire devices though if you can find another DDWRT capable router to use in conjunction with the USR.

8/15/2010 4:58:24 PM

If you want to use the DD-WRT router exclusively over the Uverse gateway, you'll have to setup the router to be in the DMZ. I tried it on my Linksys, but the picture on the TV kept freezing up. I think the linksys couldn't handle the data throughput. So I had to take it back to using the Uverse 2WIRE crap for now.

8/15/2010 6:22:53 PM

Talk to AT&T, they have a motorolla modem with no router. might just get that and set up a Linksys router with dd-wrt

8/15/2010 6:56:05 PM

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15835

Link to get the 2wire into bridge mode. You do have to have another router/computer on the other side to sign into PPPoE.

FWIW, in my experience the 2wire is a much much much much MUCH better modem than the motorola. I've seen 6 motorolas crap out and never had a problem with the 3 2wires I've seen. Just in bridge mode, of course. The routing capabilities, as mentioned, aren't that great.

8/15/2010 7:23:05 PM

I've never had a problem with motorola.

8/15/2010 9:24:10 PM

I had to switch to the PrimeCo.

8/16/2010 4:03:36 PM

Okay, so now my probme is the bridge I'm trying to configure is having problems.

It's using dd-wrt and whenever I try to change the settings, it reboots and then my computer won't connect to it. none of the windows 7 machines/linux boxes I have will. However, my mac will. Any suggestion.

8/22/2010 3:45:42 PM

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8/23/2010 6:27:50 PM

Mine wouldn't get the gateway set right and I had to ipconfig /release and renew to get going again on my Win7 computer. Everything else picked it up fine.

8/23/2010 7:27:51 PM