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| SSID/conntection question, 2 AP's on network
I have a motorola WR850G (802.11g) and just got a Netgear MR814 (802.11b). I set the WR814 to be a client of the WR850G. I have the MR814 routed via my LAN back to a LAN port on the WR850G. I am using static IPs for all of my connections to the WR850G. I have the WR814 @ 168.192.10.99 and if I connect via a ethernet cable to one if it's LAN ports it works fine so I believe I have set it up correctly to work with my network....now the real reason for doing this was to extend the range of my wireless network.
I have given the WR814 the same SSID as the WR850G and put on on channel 1 and the other on channel 11. They both have the same WEP 128bit key saved in their configuration for access.
What determines which network my laptop connects to? I apparently can only set up one network for each SSID on the laptop configuration software so does it just move automatically? Is it that one signal has to be weaker than the other before it moves? Is there a better way to do this?
Also I have settings for "any available network (access point preferred)", "access point (infrastructure) networks only" and "computer to computer (ad-hoc)" under my wireless's card's configuration. Which should I use? I assume one of the 1st two.
Is there anything else I should be doing?
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I was just reading the FAQ again on how to do this, is one of my problems that I am using the same SSID for both units? I thought they had to be the same????
Thanks
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| Ok, I know a little bit about extending a connection, but only with the Cisco AP340 series. I know it is possible to do it with other equipment, but I have never done it with other equipment.
Anyway, how I set it up is there was an option in the access point to extend an existing connection. What you are doing, at least how I am reading it, is setting up 2 different access points. Access point #1, that is connected to your LAN, and the new one you set up are not set up right. They are set up as 2 different points, and if your laptops connect to the #2 point, they won't connect to your network.
The best thing I can recommend is to stay with one vendor for this kind of thing. I have heard success stories with people extending the range of an access point with another one made by a different company. However, it is always easier with one vendor. I don't know if the Netgear or Motorola that you have support it. You will have to look at the respective manuals.
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Eradicator
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February 4th, @02:11PM
| Thanks for the reply.
I can connect to my web connection via either router via ethernet and it looks like my laptop can see both AP (one on ch1 and one on ch11) so as I said my main questions was do both AP's have to have the same SSID and if so how does the laptop know which one to connect to? I believe it is working already but just want to know the best config.
More simply, AP#1 is connected to my cable modem and handles the network, AP#2 is wired from one of it's LAN ports to a LAN port on AP#1 and has a static IP address assigned to it within the subnet of AP#1 and if I plug another device into a LAN port on AP#2 it connects to the web, so routing is working, I was more concerned about the wireless end of things.
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Seaboogers
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Sarasota, FL | I'm curious....why do you have an AP plugged into another AP?
Did you mean you have a router plugged into the cable modem and then an AP plugged into the router?
If this is the case...is the router a wireless one? |
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