[BNM] Wireless Extender Problem

[Alan Braddish]

Dave,

The original ABC is also a Belkin wireless router.

There is a light on the front of the extender that says it's connected, and
the web interface of the extender seems to think it's connected to ABC also
(after I tapped in the WPA connection details of the ABC router).

I guess it is a WDS repeater I am setting up.  The Belkin extender has an
"auto-configure" button on the back of it, but this only works for
non-encrypted wireless networks, so I had to manually configure it with the
WPA settings via its web interface.

I will try setting the SSID of both to "ABC", and make sure the channel is
also the same.  I'll do this tomorrow.

Thanks.
Alan



-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Dave Phelan
Sent: 04 July 2007 14:15
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Wireless Extender Problem

Alan,

On 7/4/07, Alan Braddish <alan at webspoke.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm a little confused here as I've never set one of these up before.
Should
> I be renaming the extender SSID to the same SSID of the wireless network
> that I am trying to extend?  The documentation wasn't clear about this
(good
> ole Belkin!)

I'm pretty sure you're trying to set up a WDS repeater. In which case
the SSID of the router and the repeater should be the same.

What makes you think the belkin extender is connecting to the ABC
router and correctly using WPA?

Regards
Dave Ph
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