Setting up a repeater/ wifi bridge?

hello anyone i am trying to set up a wifi repeater with my neighbors wifi so i can boost the signal and not have it be weak....but we cant seem to fully figure it out he has a netgear and i have a zonet zsr1134we, we are trying to link them...and so far both of our mac addresses are in each others router and they try to connect but it cant do it fully now my settings for a bridge i guess are ad, ad+wds or just wds now i don't fully know how to configure my router to become a repeater and i was hoping you guys could help i already changed my ip so they wouldn't clash but what now?