Question about DD-WRT

[waterjug]

The DD-WRT forum is essentially dead, so I'm asking it here.

Is is possible to use a ddwrt router as a Wireless Access Point, that has roaming access with the base router on the 2.4ghz band, but on the 5ghz band it functions as its own network? How would I do this?

Thanks

[BrownZeus]

Oh boy its been some time since I touched ddwrt. From what I recall, DDwrt treated each of the bands as its own network, so you should be able to accomplish what you want to. If you haven't already, flash a router with dd wrt and poke around

[brwainer]

Have you looked at Tomato or OpenWRT? They are more supported these days.

 

Anyway, I believe this would work fine, but I haven’t used DD-WRT in years and I don’t remember what the config for wireless uplink is like.

[Levent]

Iirc you can do that. It might be a little iffy to setup, which is why I moved away from ddwrt to freshtomato. Ddwrt is not the easiest one to setup but is probably the most feature packed one.