DON'T Throw Away Your Old Router - WDS
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- Опубліковано 1 бер 2021
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Learn about WDS and how it's like turning your router into an invisible Ethernet cable.
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"Never plug it in to the WAN port"
If you do Linus and Luke will never stop interrupting you
Very very true
But maybe than they'll start the show on time
Me:WELL. IT JUST GAVE ME NO WIFI😑😑
@@Roeclean But were you able to watch the WAN show?
unless you've got custom firmware that lets you bridge them all together
I can’t be the only person who tries these 20 minute type projects sometimes and always runs into crazy issues that nobody else has ever seen
Me trying to port forward for my Minecraft server :(
@@hunter1586 lmfao I tried that and the server just never worked. No clue why but I just got some random error code that doesn’t exist anywhere on google I guess
broken router firmware is fun :) many have features that were never tested.
like one i had that would not let you set dns manually if you did it would just put 0.0.0.0 lol
@@ratbag359 if only it were 1.1.1.1, which actually is a DNS server, but sadly it wasn't to be lol
I always have the exact wrong hardware revisions for any of the 'good stuff' to work. Always.
"it's like running an ethernet cable, but wirelessly" my man just explained wifi
Does connecting a router to a main by wire better than this solution?
@@user-cs9uu2pg8h yes
@@user-cs9uu2pg8h wired is always better, just not always convenient.
@blah blah but it cuts the bandwidth by half for each hop
Ummm... ya... this makes no sense unless the item you have doesn't have any Wifi capability, then you plug it into the 2ndary router... otherwise, you should just use wifi.
I never throw away my old router, I Craigslist that thing.
Lol
subsrcibe to pewidpeie
@@memesauce7703 9 year old
@@th1nhhdk yes
Just get a new router from the same manufacturer, and see if you can enable Mesh networking.
Works much better for larger homes
Let's appreciate that they keep their videos short and straightforward, doing what their name says.
They know their audience which are the Zoomers...
@@takehirolol5962 Lol
@Owol Yeah
Shortcircuit: am I a joke to you?
I thought that I made a comment on this as we have the exact same profile pic
0:40 "Kind of like running an ethernet cable, but wirelessly." Damn, did Ryley just invent Wifi?
yes
indeed
@@HearMeLearn
Hey SINUS 😂
And you can add Wired Equivalent Privacy
@@HearMeLearn Brings a new meaning to "sinus headache"
"Don't throw away your old router"
*Cries in 802.11g
Btw, using a mask 255.255.255.0 which is the default for home networks, an address terminating with .255 is the broadcast address and not a valid device IP address!
i actually got an ad with riley for pulseway, saying its time for quickbits. Love it
Me too
Yeah same here
me too
it's*
I got an add for weetbix...
2:00 x.x.x.255 is not possible as it is your broadcast adress in the subnet and cannot be used as an ip-adress in a /24 subnet (same with x.x.x.0 and the ip your main router uses)
Thank you! They had a lot of ciritcal info right, shame that they made this „small“ mistake
Technically he said between 0 and 255, you are right though.
.1 is probably the address of the main router too, that's why he said BETWEEN, so, 2-254
I agree, hi I'm a computer networking student
@@luisgeraldes32 gateway ip's will most always be x.x.x.1
Because that transition into corsair's ad was so buttery smooth, I watched the entire video. So smooth, I even questioned why Linus should even bother doing them anymore.
Damn, even though I know this feature i'm just impressed at how well you added all the important points on such as disabling DHCP on the secondary router and keep the video so short!
I'm throwing away my old AND new router right now. How about that?
You still have a komputer don't you?
Smart, just get a mesh network system. 🙃
Even better: sell them instead. :P
yeah, gotta get that starlink satellite instead lol. its now available in my area owo
Rage quit?
I Just changed my router a hour ago, your video just saved his life.
What router you get I’m in the market ?
Rember speed is cut in half
don't use wds theres probably a better repeater option in the settings of your router. wds is pretty old and unsafe
@@cl_albus Still beats dropping the connection when ur ever so slightly too far...I knew my old router might come in handy! :p
Were you really going to just throw away a perfectly working piece of tech?
Good vid! One thing I’ recommended is setting up a DHCP pool of 150 IPs on the primary router (ie 192.168.1.1- 192.168.1.150) then using the IP’s that are not in the pool for static IP assignments. (Make the 2nd router 192.168.1.151) then it will never conflict with the DHCP pool.
A secondary router is also great for bypassing parental controls. Just make sure the secondary router assigns ip-adresses higher than the primary one and that the two routers are connected via LAN instead. There's probably more to this but this worked for me.
Riley: "Wow, you watched the whole video"
Well actually I listened to the whole Riley ...... ASMR ya know
You are missing out on the epicness that is called Riley tho
2:12 damn didn't know Riley was from Pakistan
damn wtf pakistan
Raja Riley Khan Tanoli
Land of terrorism
@@jinxblaze true haha
They probably did that to increase bandwidth allocation
Being straight to the point, it is, no doubt, the best WDS configuration guide on UA-cam.
i was using the wrong channel settings 3 years ago when i was trying to do this. Thank you for reviving this project for me!
I've decorated with the cables draped from the celling aesthetic.
Mmm that's the best one.
"192.168.0.1"
10.0.0.1 Gang rise up.
And also 172.16.0.1 - Why nobody wants me?
I’m here
Xfinity: 10.0.0.1
@@DB-47 lol no one seems to use it
192.168.x.x king
and 10.x.x.x runner up
172.16.x.x to 172.31.x.x never seen used
I'm definitely a fan of 192.168.0.1 myself, but my current network was set up for 10.0.0.1 from my last router, and I was too lazy to switch all the static IP's haha.
best sponsor ever, been using the hs70 pro for a year now and its just so freaking amazing and versatile! would highly recommend it!!!
I recently did that at my parent's house, but thanks for educating more people on how to reuse old hardware! :D
Plugging directly into the WAN port increases the resolution of Linus by 3840%
2:12 "Region: Pakistan" ?!?
Nice catch man 😂
Some regions configs "allow" more wifi channels in the router 'cause in some countries legislations don't allow wireless networks on some ranges. It's not rare to see from 1 to 11 and if you select another it shows 1 to 15 for e.g.
That can help to put your network on a channel that there is less neighbors: less noise :P
@@P4NCH1 true but it's illegal per FCC regulations.
@@lands1459 Indeed. But we all know that "can" and "should" are not the same thing..
@@P4NCH1 idk what you mean but kek
I did not know you could do this - this is jolly useful - thank you Riley 👍🏽
I love how I had to figure everything in this video the hard way a while back when I set up my home network, but if I hadn't I wouldn't understand a thing now
.255 is not a valid address where a /24 subnet mask is in use as is the case for most home networks and consumer routers. Also .1 is most likely going to be the main router's address.
he said *between* those values
@@sodiboo but the first one is possible while .255 isn't
@@sodiboo When someone says pick a number between 1 and 10 do they never pick 1 or 10?
@@novicedroner2629 Do you "throw a dice and get a number between 0 and 7"?
@@novicedroner2629 between x and y is ambigous between an inclusive range and an exclusive one, if you instead say “pick a number from 1 to 10” that’s unambiguous
If your routers have both 2,4 and 5 Ghz channels you can use say the 2,4 one as the bridge and connect devices to the 5 one to improve speed.
Yes and no, 2.4 is already slow, plus the penalty to retransmit, plus the loss over distance, you'd be lucky to get 25-30Mbps at the far end. Would it work? Probably. Would you want to use it for anything other than your siblings devices when you are mad at them? No.
@@caniscerulean So you mean that I'm better off use only 5 Ghz band for both link and devices? I think not sir, 2,4 has better range than 5 Ghz and don't fall that much behind in speed. And to have a dedicated channal for the link is cuting a lot of traffic freezing up the 5 Ghz channel to handled the wireless devices. BUT, if you only use wired devices with your brigde then ofcourse the 5 Ghz channel should handle the link.
Nah, you always want the faster link for the back haul. Otherwise, all your devices will be connecting using the faster 5Ghz and then bottlenecking on the slower link. This is true of all networks, whether they be Wi-Fi, wired, road, rail etc...
@@leopold7562 that is true, the backhaul should be the faster one, good point. But what I ment to point out with my original post was the fact that you could split the duties between the 2 channels for improved results. Because that is something that isn't mentioned in the video.
@@viktor4174 Ah, I get you now. Yeah, that would be better, then you're not sharing the backhaul with other devices.
Depending on your router, and its firmware, you can set the wan port to be another lan port. also it is possible on some routers to set antennae to be rx or tx only, so that you only lose a small amount of speed as it will dedicate transmission and receiving to those specific antennae. It doesn't eliminate the speed loss, but it can mitigate it to some extent. I used an old linksys router reflashed with dd-wrt as a wireless repeater for a while to grab the free wifi in my city, and connect wired devices to it. Setup with a script that auto reconnected and spoofed the routers mac address every so often to dodge usage limits. Worked surprisingly well.
So helpful and useful, not just for wifi in the home but for a networking module I’m doing at univer
That smooth segway though
dont worry ill just throw away my new router
I'll*
@@CreeperPookie I’ll
@@stxnw I’LL
I'lL
Thanks for the help!
To be honest was nice to see this video back in 2010 . Because i did the same but using the wire method not the WiFi method. Was amazing in my hole backyard having strong wifi signal, this video man so nostalgic to see it . Keep the good work up 👍
I live in a large victorian home with walls that don't like wifi. So I have a network of routers connected together. I've been doing it for a few years now and never had a problem. Good to see others have figured this out.
I use my old Asus router as an access point connected to my new router by ethernet. The speeds are much better this way.
Me too
"Setting the last number between 1 and 255". Actually you'll want to set it between 2 and 254. 255 is the broadcast IP for sending data to all devices on the network. You also don't typically want to set it to 1, because well, 1 is usually the gateway.
Sht. I really knew my tech in the late 90s and early 2Ks. I got old, but the reminders here are priceless. Thanks!
The video could do with a heads-up about security issues like sticky devices (e.g. a tablet, laptop) you have trouble removing, and ROP-Attacks on older routers. Some of these things can be resolved, but do be aware of it firstly. If you're going to do this, sometimes it is better used where you've made a smoothwall or slackware server (from a PC) as the first "router".
Back in the good ol'days we use to hand write then bit bang dd-wrt on to our routers!
I'm remembering all those weird stuff that happened when I set up a wifi vendo machine.
Good timing Riley, I was just trying to set up a second router as an access point.
I got a Pulseway add with Riley and this Tq is also hosted by Riley. The add started with the "now it's time for the quick bits". I thought for a moment I was in the middle of a TechLinked video. Bonkers.
but it makes for the perfect firsbee!
so that would make it wi-fly?
The wan port is my private line to The Wan Show 😂🏆
what a right time you uploaded the video
I'm trying to use my secondary as a repeater and screwed everytime 😂
This video was incredibly helpful, thanks guys!
It's also important to make sure the IP address of the secondary router is not in the range of the DHCP range on the primary router. Weird problems can happen otherwise.
lol I'm listening to this on the HS70 pros that's having connection issues after only 2 years of owning them
thank you very much, was looking for some advice since i recetlly bought a new repeater these days
I was literally going to do this in a few weeks thank you for the guide
LTT: "Don't thrown away you old router".
Me who had stored his first 28Kbps dial up modem 😏
I still own my 300 baud modem for my C64.
@@Null-- ooh, the big fat rubber cups? Acoustic coupler from hell?
@@Dranok1 This actually has a wired phone plug - though at the time I thought the acoustic ones looked so amazing. Also Wargames.
Video suggestion: Comparing the latency of an 8000 Mhz Polling Rate Gaming Mouse with a PS2/ mouse
Yes, theres a lack of videos discussing this properly
ua-cam.com/video/mwf_F2VboFQ/v-deo.html
@@eniff2925 This video is great, but all the mice he tries are USB based. I want to see the results of PS/2 mouse
@@pablomonsalve3911 It makes no percievable difference with modern USB mice. But I agree there are not many videos on this topic, I found one here:
ua-cam.com/video/TAA1n_9cXrA/v-deo.html
This was surprisingly useful, makes me feel better about upgrading my router
That was a great segue into the sponsor at the end
Or give the old router to your neighbour and as soon they have it plugged in so will you have the password to connect on their wifi and get free internet. 😏
They will reset it and change it's password 😂
Just ask for their password then go home and set up a router or signal repeater with the same name and password.
They will benefit from the increased range, you benefit from free internet.
I've seen people do this with free wi-fi from stores they are in range of.
@@MohsinExperiments Note down their WPS pin. No one changes that shit ever.
I once organised 3 people who lived in a block to share there connection with extenders (made from routers) and as far as I know they still do it now 3 years later but its like 12 flats now and they run cables out of the windows to clear floors 🤣😂👍👌😉
@@EZ-D-FIANT wow nice one
I am happy with my 100 metre ethernet cable running through my house.
Ryle's ads are the only ones i don't skipped. Lov him
I've been using open source Linux based firmware to allow me to use old routers as wireless bridges for years. Often there will be a setting in this firmware to switch the WAN port to a LAN port and allow you to use it as well, but you do have to check that box if you want to take advantage of that feature.
I currently favor openwrt if available for the hardware, though I have one wireless bridge running dd-wrt. I actually run openwrt on my main router as well.
I see Riley, I click.
"We've run out of ideas for Techquickie. What do we do?"
"Let's make a video about a technology that's been around since the turn of the century and still sucks."
"Give this man a medal!"
IKR? I ended up running a 20-meter ethernet cable from the house to the shed in order to connect the two routers. The wireless version was painfully unreliable.
I have done this for multiple different reasons and it has worked reasonably well. For a while I needed a temporary wireless connection until I could get some cables long enough to run through the ceiling to provide data to a desk I had just moved. At this very moment, I am using it with a wireless baby camera that the wireless has died on, so I don’t have to run a line for it just to use it.
TL;DR: great for temporary fixes, and makes wired devices wireless.
I cant get over how perfect Rileys hair is. I wish I had that kind of hair
Cables everywhere... lovin it.
This is so weird, I literally was searching of this yesterday because I want to extend my WiFi range and you guys uploaded this video now....
they heard u
@@priestofhiro fr
Thanks for reminding me of my old Samsung Galaxy S3. That thing would hang on to WiFi signals even when it was only receiving a few bits per second from one AP and there was a 2nd AP right next to the phone.
I was so happy when I got an OP3 and it was switching automatically just like I wanted it to.
Most useful tech quickie in a while :)
Smoothest sponsor transition
Within 2 and 254 is more accurate. .1 is invariably used by the main router and .255 is a special address used for broadcast.
He did say between
Use 42. 254 is also often assigned to routers
Eh...set DHCP to give out 192.168.1.100 to 200. Use any of the rest for static IPs. Kinda crazy though if you have a big family you could run out with my strategy.
Am i the only one that noticed Pakistan at 2:12 😂
Need to keep a hold of this one for later!!
My headset broke and this video had the perfect sponsor.
"wow you watched the whole video"
omg the *WHOLE* 4:40 minutes, yay me O_o
2:42 that's what she said
2:42 There is exception if secondary router supports "Access point" or "Bridged" mode. Then WAN port is assigned to bridge with other LAN ports + WLAN interfaces and therefore can be used in same fashion as LAN ports :) This basically converts Wi-Fi router to "Wi-Fi switch".
Also some 3rd party and advanced firmwares like DD-WRT, OpenWRT and RouterOS let you edit bridge settings and add WAN port to bridge.
I used the 12v transformer from an old router to power quiet fans I put on a loud AF 3D printer (24v). I harvested the Sunon Maglev 4020 etc fans from Sky PVRs and used the 320Gb HDDs for storage.
"don't throw away your old router"
Shows a nicer router then I've yet to even see in person...
XD
🎩👌
I also recommend installing OpenWRT.
That’s over the head of most people watching this video.
@@Bob_Smith19 Learning and bettering yourself to make your life easier is over most people's heads? Huh?!
i missed tips like this!!!!!!!! i suddenly remember what LTT stood for!
There is an excellent video tutorial step by step for connecting this old router as repeater.
Working in IT for so long WDS for me, means Windows Deployment Services.
0:40
It's an Ethernet cable just without cable..... Ummm wifi?
Nah, ethernet cables without cables are just an even number of rj45 connectors. Unless you got one of them weird split cables, then you have an odd number of connectors.
2:35 "flashbacks"
HAHAHA good one!
This is as good as throughput between routers and every hop cut the already halved speed to half. You will get more pleasant experience through cable with different channels, optimized overlaping.
Perfect! Riley's mom always complains about the bad wifi on here side of the truck stop.
I recently wired up my entire condo with cat 6. The network has never been more stable.
from what I can tell from your profile picture, your cat 6 seems healthy and well configured.
Thanks for the best network tip ever :-)
Even if there´s no WDS option you can still use it for extanded range, if you connect it via cable and setup a second wlan it works like a charm as well, using that way for 3 years now.
I just use my old router to extend WiFi range but instead of WDS, I opted to use Powerline adapter. This ensure I get full WiFi speed on the secondary router as well.
Pfft... 100 foot ethernet cable, more like wlan on a budget
Wan*
Wide area network*
why not both? :D
ran a 50m ethernet line to shed, have an old router w/ dhcp disabled out there for the PCs setup in there.. and bridged wifi for extending that shite for the times when i have my phone or nintendo switch out here too. gigabit through to house for wired connections, full speed wifi for the wireless stuff.
having strong wifi thats near 100% all throughout the household and still near 100% way out in the back yard is awesome too
I'm offended by the "snaking a 100 ft ethernet cable through your house" comment.
I did even worse. I used two 50 foot cables and patched them togethor.
idk why but its so natural to see him in his glasses that when he makes a video with no glasses it feels like its not him
Last year, during a rather hot week here in England, I basically did this with my Raspberry Pi 4. We were all outside, social distancing of course, but music was needed, so I set up my Pi as a WiFi extender and connected good old Alexa to it. Power was the only problem, it was irritating getting power several meters away from the house, but I succeeded.
It was quite a fun project, I just wish I backed up the SD card, I can't really remember how I did it.
Remember to save your projects!
lol I just got exactly same asus router
Asus makes this easy and has mesh networking built in.
@@Bob_Smith19 true. it was incredible easy to instal and setup
Asus are the best I bought the same one in January new from Amazon, but they sent a used faulty one, I sent it back after a week and its been out of stock ever since so had to buy a TP link AX6000 instead.
Any one Noticed Pakistan at 2:12
😏😏
You and hundreds more
now THAT is what i call a smooth sponsor segway
This video it makes it look so easy until you realize by configuring your routers that you've summoned some diabolic IPs that weren't suposed to assign to your PC and now your router portal fade into oblivion.
"you can think of it like running an ethernet cable, but wirelessly"
Riley that's called regular wifi
Don't throw them away just upgrade the software and you can use it as a graphic card.😂😂
I did something similar with an old linksys router, except instead of doing a wireless mesh, I disabled the wireless altogether and used an ethernet powerline adapter and used it as a switch for my server, TV, and desktop.
Only I needed this guide a while ago when I figured it out on my own🤣