Hi there,
I have a customer who has recently moved into a converted barn with very
thick stone walls, and an 802.11b laptop gets very poor reception in the
living room from the Netgear DG834G router I have installed in the study.
The wireless card is built into the Centrino (tm) laptop and the
customer would prefer not to use an additional PCMCIA card (pre-N, MIMO
or whatever). Since the customer can afford the price of keeping things
nice & tidy in this way it seems to me the best solution is to use WDS
and set up an additional access point as a repeater.
<http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2004/04/14/how_to_wds_bridge/>
Unfortunately the DG834G doesn't support WDS, as do very few of
Netgear's other models.
<http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N101503.asp>
I guess I'll have to issue a refund on that router & use it somewhere
else. This is kinda a pain for me, because I love the configuration
web-pages of the Netgear stuff - I just find it very easy to use and
never any bother at all.
Can anyone recommend alternative hardware for performing WDS, please?
I need an ADSL modem-router that supports WDS, and another router / AP
as a repeater. In the past I have found D-Link & (to a lesser extent)
Belkin wireless kit somewhat poor, but will consider it if comes highly
recommended for WDS.
Thanks in advance for any comments, advice or suggestions,
Stroller.
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