ICR-1601
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AP Router Mode
This mode allows you to get your wired
and wireless devices connected to form
the Intranet of the wireless gateway, and
the Intranet will link to the Internet with
NAT mechanism of the router. So, this
router is working as a WiFi AP, but also
a WiFi hotspot for Internet accessing
service. It means local WiFi clients can
associate to it, and go to Internet. With its
NAT mechanism, all of wireless clients
don’t need to get public IP addresses from
ISP.
WDS Only Mode
WDS (Wireless Distributed System) Only
mode drives a WiFi gateway to be a bridge
for its wired Intranet and a repeater to
extend distance. You can use multiple WiFi
gateways as a WiFi repeater chain with all
gateways setup as "WDS Only" mode. All
gateways can communicate with each
other through WiFi. All wired client hosts
within each gateway can also communicate
each other in the scenario. Only one
gateway within repeater chain can be DHCP
server to provide IP for all wired client hosts
of every gateway which being disabled
DHCP server. This router can be NAT router
to provide internet access.
The diagram illustrates that there are two wireless gateways 2, 3 running at "WDS Only" mode. They
both use channel 3 to link to local Gateway 1 through WDS. Both gateways connected by WDS need to
setup the remote AP MAC for each other. All client hosts under gateway 2, 3 can request IP address from
the DHCP server at gateway 1. Besides, wireless Gateway 1 also execute the NAT mechanism for all client
hosts Internet accessing.
