Turning your FreshTomato router into a switch or Access Point (AP) is easy. The difference between using the router as a switch and using it as an Access Point involves making use of only the wireless interfaces while using it as a switch. In other words, first configure the router as a switch, then enable access point functionality in the /Basic/Network menu.

In the /Basic/Network menu:

1. Set the “Type” setting to “Disable” for each WAN.
   
   
2. In the “LAN” section, assign the router an IP address
   in the same subnet as the gateway router and
   outside the DHCP range (e.g. 192.168.1.2).
   
   
3. Uncheck “DHCP” to disable it for all WANs.
   
   
4. Set the gateway and DNS addresses to match
   the address of the gateway router. Here: 192.168.1.1.

Now, in the /Advanced/VLAN menu:

• Add the WAN port to the LAN

Next, connect an Ethernet cable to any LAN port on each router. This will create a LAN-to-LAN connection. On the router acting as a switch, you can connect the cable to the WAN port, but only if that port has been reassigned to the LAN bridge.

Finally, on both routers, check that every port is assigned to the same bridge (e.g. “br0”) in the /Advanced/VLAN menu. <

1. First, configure the router as a switch as described above.
2. Then, in the /Basic/Network menu, simply add an Access Point
   as you normally would.
   Additional APs can be added as virtual interfaces
   in the /Advanced/Virtual Wireless menu. Ensure all ports and all wireless interfaces are assigned to the same bridge (e.g. br0) in the /Advanced/VLAN menu.