I have an unRAID Tower that I just upgraded to unRAID 6.1.7 and it seems to be working great so far.  However, I am having one problem that I was hoping you guys could help me with.

 

Currently I have the unRAID Tower in my bedroom and a uBee Cable Modem/Router (all-in-one unit from the cable company) is the living room.

 

Previously I had run a very long ethernet cable from the unRAID Tower to the cable modem/router but I can no longer easily do that.

 

So I currently have the unRAID tower hooked up to a spare wireless router that I haven't used in a while that I got from Amazon, the TP-Link TL-WR841N Wireless N300 Home Router.

 

TP-Link TL-WR841N at Amazon  (non-referral)

 

While not the fastest router, it's been working fine when I wirelessly connect to it with my laptop.

 

However, I cannot browse the internet because the TP-Link router is in my bedroom and it's not connected to the Cable Modem/Router in my living room.

 

I have been able to bridge/connect these devices and setup the TP-Link as a Wifi extender using the tutorial here - http://scottyzone.com/2014/12/28/setup-tp-link-tl-wr841n-as-a-wi-fi-extender/

 

While that works and I can be wirelessly connected to the TP-Link router and browse the internet, I cannot seem to access my unRAID tower anymore.

 

Is there anyway to have the TP-Link router connected to the unRAID tower, wirelessly connected to the router as an extender so I can browse the internet, and be able to access my unRAID tower all at the same time?

I'd look at powerline networking personally.  I still use a powerline link at home, until I get the chance to run ethernet

 

Unraid ==> Powerline ~~~~~~~~ Powerline ==>Router

 

These are the ones I use.

I ran into this when I added a TP-Link to my setup. The fix for me was to turn off the NAT server function of the TP-LINK and let the ISP router (FIOS modem) handle the allocation of IP addresses within my network  (google to find specifics on what to do, I don't remember). Once I did that everybody could see each other again. Makes my expensive wireless router no smarter than an access point but it works.

Another thing to consider is a MOCA adapter if power line adapters provide poor performance.

I got 20Mb/s with power line in my rather old apartment building. I get 70 Mb/s with MOCA over the equally as old coax that is in place here.

The latest MOCA 2 adapters can hit 1 Gbps with channel bonding, or 670 Mbps without channel bonding.

No need to post the same problem all over the place

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=46460.0

 

The latest MOCA 2 adapters can hit 1 Gbps with channel bonding, or 670 Mbps without channel bonding.

 

To be fair, I'm not using purpose built adapters but rather old Verizon Actiontec FIOS routers. So that might explain some of it.

I wanted to update how I got the TP-Link TL-WR841N working with my unRAID setup. I'm currently not using this setup and instead using a Powerline solution - http://amzn.to/1n4HQgc

 

But if you have this router and want to make it work, here's how I did it.

 

Get the TP-Link TL-WR841N Router working with unRAID

- Plug the router into unRAID

- Connect to the Router with the MacBook Pro via ethernet

- Go to 192.168.0.1

- Login into the router

 

- Click Wireless

- Go to Wireless Settings

- Change the Wireless Network Name (Whatever you want)

- Enable WDS Bridging

- Click "Survey"

- Select the Wifi network that has internet

- Type in the password

- Save

 

- Click Wireless Security

- Type in a password (whatever you want)

- Click Save

 

- Click Network

- Click LAN

- Type in an IP Address for the TP-Link TL-WR841N Wireless Router - 192.168.0.2 works

- Click Save

 

- Click DHCP

- Click DHCP Settings

- Click Disable

- Click Save

 

- Click System Tools

- Click Reboot

- Wait

 

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These are the steps I used to make this setup work. I was able to access the internet and my unRAID Server through wireless when I was connected to my main wireless router due to enabling WDS Bridging and turning off DHCP.