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I would really appreciate it if someone can help me with my setup. I have a fibre connection at home that is connected to a Spark wifi router (Huawei HG630b). I get a signal downstairs and want to connect a desktop computer and a LAN printer to my network. The printer doesn’t have Wifi only Ethernet connection. I have a spare TP-Link TD-W8968 router that I would like to use.
My idea is that I would connect the TP-Link wirelessly to my Huawei router and then plug an Ethernet cable from the TP-Link to the desktop and another Ethernet cable to the printer.
I tried using WDS and read about it online however I am struggling to get it to work. These are the steps that I followed:
Huawei Config:
Set the DHCP range to start at 192.168.1.100 (I read that you need to make sure that there is available range so I removed any IP addresses below the .100 so that they are not available to be assigned by DHCP)
Turn on WDS on Huawei and enter the MAC Address of the TP-link
Set the wifi channel to 1
Restarted the device
TP-link Config
Turn off DHCP on the TP-Link
Set it up in Bridge mode
Set up wifi channel to 1
Scan wifi signal to select the wireless network that is being broadcasted by Huawei
Enter the Huawei MAC Address in TP-Link
Enter the wireless network password
Set up a new wireless network on TP-Link to have the a different name as the one currently being broadcasted by Huawei and assign a password for testing purposes
Restarted the device
I tried to connect the desktop to the TP-Link router by Ethernet cable however there is no internet connection on the desktop.
I am not really sure what I am doing wrong. I would appreciate it if someone can help please trouble shoot this as I have spent hours on it and I just can’t figure out why it is not working so any help would be greatly appreciated.
