When you setup a wireless bridge with Tomato, it’s best to use two identical routers of the same model number. I also recommend that you install the same firmware version on both routers. Ideally, you’ll get the best overall performance by using two dual band routers. Use one band for the wireless bridge. Use the other for your wireless clients.
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How To Setup a Wireless Repeater, WDS Bridge in Tomato
When you setup a wireless bridge between two Tomato routers, bear in mind that Tomato doesn’t offer a “repeater bridge” mode. But it does have a mode called “Access Point + WDS”. This is similar to how the repeater bridge mode in DD-WRT operates. They both retransmit the broadcast and they both decrease throughput with each wireless hop.
