[GTALUG] (question) TP-Link TL-WR802N 300Mbps Wireless-N Nano Router

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Fri Aug 12 02:20:03 EDT 2016


They are lying, again.  I downloaded the user's manual.  In the feature
section, they mention "bridge".  But, in the Client Mode chapter, they
talk about DHCP, which mean it's NAT.  
-- 
William

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:15:57AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> Thanks Scott.  Scenerio 1 (bridge) is what I need.  Basically, I have
> devices with ethernet port, and you normally plug into router or switch
> to get DHCP IP.  Short distance, short cable, no problem.  My problem
> starts with Long distance and long cable.  I need something that will
> replace this long ethernet cable.
> 
> If stock firmware can do "wireless client bridge", then I don't need
> OpenWRT or DD-WRT.  Off to Canada Computer, I go...
> -- 
> William
> 
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:26:15AM -0400, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
> > Hi William,
> > 
> > 
> > First Question, do you care about double NAT?
> > 
> > Scenario 1: Bridge (Single NAT from WIFI AP's upstream router).
> > 
> > * The 'box' joins a wireless AP, and all packets, including broadcasts,
> > DCHP, ARP, pass through transparently to the wired port on the 'box'.
> > 
> > 
> > Scenario 2: Double NAT
> > 
> > * The 'box' joins a wireless AP, get an address from the upstream router and
> > then NATs that, creating and managing a separate network for the wired port.
> > Internet Access would be still be
> > 'normal', you would not get broadcast traffic, or addresses from the
> > upstream router.
> > 
> > Scenario 2 is a lot easier, and covers the majority of use cases.
> > 
> > ----
> > 
> > Over the last five years I've been using the TL-MR3020 as a swiss army knife
> > for old ball networking. I actually own several of them.
> > 
> > I did use it's stock firmware as a wireless bridge (Scenario 1), evening
> > doing a PXE network boot over it. Although that was 4 years ago.
> > 
> > OpenWRT works on it very well, and I've even gone through the pain of
> > bricking and recovering one.
> > 
> > https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020
> > http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=690&item_id=047186
> > 
> > You can still find some stock in Canada Computers.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On the TL-WR802N,
> > 
> > It's 'next model' name-sake of the venerable TL-WR702N*, minus the oh so
> > useful USB Host port... -_-;
> > It is completely different hardware though, not the same SoC and it looks
> > like the openwrt community is still getting their heads around it.
> > 
> > https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr802n
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > * TL-MR3020 is just a derivative of the TL-WR702N with hardware buttons, and
> > an extra PCB antenna, and larger flash chip.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > So yeah, can't say anything about TL-WR802N other then it's half the price
> > of the TL-MR3020. But the TL-MR3020 has worked well for me in the past.
> > 
> > 
> > On 08/11/2016 11:52 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> > > Anyone have this one?
> > >     http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1046_365&item_id=087761
> > >     http://www.tplink.ca/en/products/details/TL-WR802N.html
> > > If so, have you ever used its "Client Mode" and can you confirm that it
> > > works?
> > > 
> > > I need small portable "wireless bridge", and the advertised "client
> > > mode" is what I need.  But, last TP-Link I bought was N750 dual-band
> > > TL-WDR4300.  It advertised "wireless bridge" and even their tech support
> > > said so.  But, both lied.  Shocking!
> > > 
> > > I have Linksys WRT model with DD-WRT, and its client bridge works.  But,
> > > it's a bit bulky to carry around.
> > > 
> > 
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