Hello,
This is a bit much for the router together I think.
If you want to connect to another router wirelessly and add something(hotspot) to the signal and use the result as a another wireless signal, it would be a repeater mode.
This can be seen from DD-WRT help on the right where you can set Wireless Mode options under the Wireless Physical interface. (client bridge is about diasabling WAN to use only one(bridged) network node.
So it can be WDS or a non-WDS repeater. However a non-WDS repeater would not keep MAC address data, thus will let the users through after the first successful login. In your scenario it may be used, since you’d run the hotspot on the last router in the chain.
To configure a WDS repeater please see our article here: http://www.hotspotsystem.com/hotspot_help/kb/articles/31-extend-range-with-wds-wireless-distribution-system
To configure a non-WDS repeater you need to use Repeater or Repeater bridge mode(we haven’t tested this yet).
In repeater mode you’ll use the physical wireless interface to connect to your another router, while the virtual interface would run the hotspot. You need to set it of course to unbridged mode to get the node index under the DHCP interface of the hotspot.
If you ran into trouble, try to use 8.8.8.8 for google’s DNS under basic>basic setup>router IP>local DNS and remove the 3 checkbox flags for DNSMasq for DNS, DHCP and DHCP-authoritative under Network address server settings on the same page.
Best Regards,
Steve Hars,
Hotspotsystem.com