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Wireless Access Point HNW150AP
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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 ESSID
or network name of your network. If your AP has any kind of channel auto configuration function that
changes channels based on network conditions, be sure to disable this feature. If your main WDS station is
also your network’s router, make sure it’s set up to distribute IP addresses in the network.
Note: Write down or otherwise take note of the MAC addresses of all of your WDS stations — many
configuration software systems require you to know these addresses to make the configuration settings
work. Write down the wireless MAC address (it’s often on a sticker) and not the Ethernet MAC address
Turn on the WDS functionality in your main station (it’s often labeled WDS, or may say something like
Enable This Base Station As a WDS Main Base Station — that’s the wording Apple uses for their AirPort
Extreme products). When you turn on this functionality, the configuration software may ask you to identify
the remote repeater(s). Have the MAC addresses of those repeaters handy in case you need them.
Depending upon how your software works, you may have to separately access the configuration software
on the remote repeater APs to turn on WDS. Here are a few things to remember:
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You need to assign any other WDS stations to the same channel that your main base station is
using. This is counterintuitive to many folks who have had the 802.11b/g “use channels 1, 6, and
11 and keep your APs on different channels” mantra driven into their heads for a long time!
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You set the ESSID of the remote location(s) using either a unique name or by using the same
ESSID as you use for your main base station. (Whoa, our heads just exploded!) Using the same
ESSID (a “roaming” network) is pretty cool. You associate with one AP one time and then your PC
or Mac can associate with any AP on your WDS network without you having to do anything — it’s
more seamless this way. But remember, you don’t have to do this — you can give each AP a
unique ESSID and just configure your computer to associate with them according to your
preference.
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Make sure you turn off any routing or DHCP functionality in the remote repeater stations. All of this
functionality should be performed in the main base station or the network’s main router.