I need to create a bridge between two routers in my house. The two routers are the same (Mercusys MR50G). Both routers when connected to the cable modem work perfectly fine so the devices are both ok. Unfortunately, whichever of those is connected to the main router as a bridge it results in timeouts and very high lags. The bridge router is also frequently disconnected from the wifi network. I have disabled both the DCHP server and the NAT boost in the bridge router and the issue persists. I also clone the MAC of my wifi (and also the ethernet card when testing the cable connection from the bridge router to my computer) in the bridge router.
I have tested everything also by literally putting the two routers next to each other and noticed no difference.
Tracert to www.google.com when connected to the main router through wifi:
Tracing route to www.google.com [216.58.215.68]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 10 ms 10 ms 19 ms 10.0.1.174
4 18 ms 18 ms 17 ms [my ISP IP]
5 17 ms 19 ms 19 ms [another ISP IP]
6 18 ms 18 ms 16 ms [another ISP IP]
7 19 ms 16 ms 16 ms [another ISP IP]
8 17 ms 16 ms 18 ms 72.14.195.204
9 19 ms 17 ms 16 ms 108.170.250.209
10 16 ms 16 ms 16 ms 108.170.234.103
11 15 ms 25 ms 17 ms waw02s16-in-f4.1e100.net [216.58.215.68]
And when connected through the bridge router:
Tracing route to www.google.com [216.58.215.68]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * 19 ms 10 ms 10.0.1.174
4 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms [my ISP IP]
5 15 ms 15 ms 17 ms [another ISP IP]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 17 ms 16 ms 16 ms [another ISP IP]
8 18 ms 16 ms 18 ms 72.14.195.204
9 19 ms 17 ms 18 ms 108.170.250.209
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * 16 ms waw02s16-in-f4.1e100.net [216.58.215.68]
Trace complete.
This is clearly not connected with the range or signal strength/interference but I’m too inexperienced to solve this myself.
