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Wi-Fi Personal Bridge 150 User Manual
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WDS (Wireless Distribution System)
WDS stands for Wireless Distribution System. It enables the access points (APs) to be connected
wirelessly. Integrated Access Device can also provide you services of WDS.
Note
Integrated Access Device that supports WDS does not support
security systems like WEP, WPA or WPA-Enterprise on a WDS
network.
Sometimes you want to establish a multi-access point wireless network in your home or office, but
you don’t have Ethernet cabling running to the locations where you want to add the extra AP. After
all, you may be using wireless because you don’t have wires in place already.
One way to overcome this problem is to use a system built into Wireless Gateway that is known as
Wireless Distribution System (WDS).
WDS basically creates a mesh network by providing a mechanism for access points to “talk” to each
other as well as sending data to devices associated with them.
Note
WDS is based on some standardized 802.11 protocols, but there
is no standardized way of implementing it that works across
different AP and router vendors. So if you have a Wireless
Gateway in one location and you want to create a WDS link to a
other brand of router in another location (just to pick two brands at
random), you probably won’t be able to get it to work. You have
your best luck when you use equipment from the same
manufacturer.
Note
When you use WDS as a repeater system, as described below, it
effectively halves the data rate for clients connected to Integrated
Wireless Gateway. That’s because every bit of data needs to be
sent twice (data is received by the AP and then retransmitted).
To configure WDS, you need to modify some settings on each AP within the network. Your exact
steps (and the verbiage used) will vary from vendor to vendor. Generally, you’ll see some settings
like the following:
Main WDS station:
One of your WDS stations is the main base station for the WDS network. This AP is connected
directly to your Internet connection, or connected to your router via a wired connection. The main
station is the bridge to your Internet connection that all wireless traffic eventually flows through.
Repeater WDS stations:
In a simple, two-AP WDS network, the other “unwired” AP is a repeater. The repeater receives data
from the main base station and relays the data to the wireless clients associated to the repeater
station (and vice versa for data coming from the clients). If you have more than two APs, remote
APs may be repeaters, or they may be relays that provide an intermediate stopping point for data if
the repeater is too far away from the main station to communicate.
When you configure your main or base WDS station, take note of the channel you’re set to and the
SSID or network name of your network. If your AP has any kind of channel auto configuration