two AP's

Just to check i;m not barking up the wrong tree really...

I have a large thick stone walled farm house, my single wireless ap,
(netgear 834G) wont "reach" all parts of the ground floor, never mind the
1st .

I was thinking of adding a 2nd accesspoint unit (on its own) connected via
cat5 to the 834G and mounted on the 1st floor. I have been given, well
almost, a Belkin 7130 ap which i hope will work.

What stuff about channels ,SSID etc etc etc will i need to know about / set
up to allow me to seemlessly move from one AP to the other??

TIA

Tim..

Tim (remove obvious) wrote:
> Just to check i;m not barking up the wrong tree really...
>
> I have a large thick stone walled farm house, my single wireless ap,
> (netgear 834G) wont "reach" all parts of the ground floor, never mind the
> 1st .
>
> I was thinking of adding a 2nd accesspoint unit (on its own) connected via
> cat5 to the 834G and mounted on the 1st floor. I have been given, well
> almost, a Belkin 7130 ap which i hope will work.
>
> What stuff about channels ,SSID etc etc etc will i need to know about / set
> up to allow me to seemlessly move from one AP to the other??
>
> TIA
>
> Tim..
>
>
Same SSID ,different CH's pref spaced 5 apart i.e 1 & 6 ,4 & 10....,you
will have to manually set the 7130's IP as it will not accept DHCP from
the 834G.

Ted

another method is to bridge the 2 AP into one to allow extended range
- most of the top end AP allow such a functionality.


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:33:40 +0100, Ted <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Tim (remove obvious) wrote:
>> Just to check i;m not barking up the wrong tree really...
>>
>> I have a large thick stone walled farm house, my single wireless ap,
>> (netgear 834G) wont "reach" all parts of the ground floor, never mind the
>> 1st .
>>
>> I was thinking of adding a 2nd accesspoint unit (on its own) connected via
>> cat5 to the 834G and mounted on the 1st floor. I have been given, well
>> almost, a Belkin 7130 ap which i hope will work.
>>
>> What stuff about channels ,SSID etc etc etc will i need to know about / set
>> up to allow me to seemlessly move from one AP to the other??
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Tim..
>>
>>
>Same SSID ,different CH's pref spaced 5 apart i.e 1 & 6 ,4 & 10....,you
>will have to manually set the 7130's IP as it will not accept DHCP from
>the 834G.
>
>Ted

Ted wrote:
> Tim (remove obvious) wrote:
>
>> Just to check i;m not barking up the wrong tree really...
>>
>> I have a large thick stone walled farm house, my single wireless ap,
>> (netgear 834G) wont "reach" all parts of the ground floor, never mind the
>> 1st .
>>
>> I was thinking of adding a 2nd accesspoint unit (on its own) connected
>> via
>> cat5 to the 834G and mounted on the 1st floor. I have been given, well
>> almost, a Belkin 7130 ap which i hope will work.
>>
>> What stuff about channels ,SSID etc etc etc will i need to know about
>> / set
>> up to allow me to seemlessly move from one AP to the other??
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Tim..
>>
>>
> Same SSID ,different CH's pref spaced 5 apart i.e 1 & 6 ,4 & 10....,you
> will have to manually set the 7130's IP as it will not accept DHCP from
> the 834G.
>
> Ted
Just been having a look at the manual and it will work with DHCP ,so I
was wrong.

"Ted" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Ted wrote:
> > Tim (remove obvious) wrote:
> >
> >> Just to check i;m not barking up the wrong tree really...
> >>
> >> I have a large thick stone walled farm house, my single wireless ap,
> >> (netgear 834G) wont "reach" all parts of the ground floor, never mind
the
> >> 1st .
> >>
> >> I was thinking of adding a 2nd accesspoint unit (on its own) connected
> >> via
> >> cat5 to the 834G and mounted on the 1st floor. I have been given, well
> >> almost, a Belkin 7130 ap which i hope will work.
> >>
> >> What stuff about channels ,SSID etc etc etc will i need to know about
> >> / set
> >> up to allow me to seemlessly move from one AP to the other??
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Tim..
> >>
> >>
> > Same SSID ,different CH's pref spaced 5 apart i.e 1 & 6 ,4 & 10....,you
> > will have to manually set the 7130's IP as it will not accept DHCP from
> > the 834G.
> >
> > Ted
> Just been having a look at the manual and it will work with DHCP ,so I
> was wrong.


that lot went right over my head, so im glad you were in a way!!

With the Belkin connected as well as the 834G, the lappy shows up two
available points of access, and i am using the belkin one at the moment to
conenct,- havent tried asking it to use the 834 yet.

Points noted about different channels... why is this then?

Tim..

Tim (remove obvious) wrote:
<Snip>
>
> With the Belkin connected as well as the 834G, the lappy shows up two
> available points of access, and i am using the belkin one at the moment to
> conenct,- havent tried asking it to use the 834 yet.
>
> Points noted about different channels... why is this then?
To put it simply they will interfere with each other.

Tim (remove obvious) wrote:

>
> With the Belkin connected as well as the 834G, the lappy shows up two
> available points of access, and i am using the belkin one at the moment to
> conenct,- havent tried asking it to use the 834 yet.
>
> Points noted about different channels... why is this then?
>
> Tim..
>
>
To put it simply they would interfere with each other if on the same Ch.