[BNM] Wireless Extender Problem

[Alan Braddish]

Very encouraging!!

I'm sure you don't need the extender wired into the network.

My understanding was that it just picks up an existing signal and boosts it
in a weak signal area.  Surely can't be that hard to get it working!  I'll
be on the phone to Belkin Tech Support if this little bugger doesn't work!

Will keep you posted.

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of PJ Cook
Sent: 04 July 2007 14:47
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Wireless Extender Problem

Good luck and keep us posted as to how you get on lol.  I also tried doing
this, and ... gave up.  Now my Belkin extender is a lovely paper weight in
the corner of the lounge lol.  My computers just seemed to get confused when
both the original AP and the extender were turned on.  The extender /
repeater wasn't physically connected to the wired network, not sure whether
it needed to be.  I (possibly wrongly) assumed that it would just forward
the traffic to the main AP.  Are well, money well spent on more IT junk lol.
Regards
 
PJ



> From: alan at webspoke.co.uk> To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org> Date: Wed, 4
Jul 2007 14:29:23 +0100> Subject: Re: [BNM] Wireless Extender Problem> >
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> -- > Dave Phelan CCIE#3590 ICQ: 50180416 GSM: +44 (0)7776
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