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> Anybody doing this successfully? If so what equip (as well as the
> router) are you using? I can't see a Netgear repeater product by
> Googling although I have seen a bridge/access point for gaming. I
> thought a bridge was to join two different networks or at least make
> one network work across two channels?
It's a year or so since I investigated this, so my information may be out of
date, but I think that the wireless adaptors built into routers tend not to
be capable of being extended by adding an access point acting in repeater
mode, though I'm not sure why this should be the case.
When I was investigating the situation, the company that I was working for
used Dlink 604 wireless routers which couldn't be extended. Instead you
needed to attach a Dlink 2100 AP acting in normal infrastructure mode (for
coverage close to that AP) and then have another free-standing 2100 in
repeater mode placed just within range of the first one to rebroadcast the
signal. The amount of configuration information that Dlink provided on how
to achieve this was laughably small. They seemed to imply that all you had
to do was to configure the repeater AP with the MAC address of the base AP,
put the repeater AP in repeater mode and it would work. There was no
information on how to set the SSID and channel on the repeater AP, though
from other sources I found that the general advice is "same SSID as base;
different channel to base"; nor was there any information about whether the
repeater AP needed to be allocated an IP address in the same range as the
base AP's, thought it seems eminently sensible to do so! I did eventually
get it working in the office, walking round with a laptop in the car park to
find a point at which the base AP was just out of range and then showing
that when the repeater AP was turned on, the laptop detected a signal.
However I understand that the engineer who installed the equipment on the
customer site couldn't get it to work; sadly I was made redundant at about
that time so I never did hear the end of the story.
At that time, my knowledge of wireless networking was less than it is now:
nowadays I'd use NetStumbler to look for transmissions on the two different
channels, to distinguish base signal from repeater signal. I'd also try to
get everything working with encryption turned off throughout to begin with.
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