[ale] [OT] Extending a wifi network

[Christopher R. Curzio]

Good luck. Unless your other AP is the same thing, you won't be able to use your WAP-11 as a repeater.
 
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Thus Spake Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net>:
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:40:32 -0700


> Hi folks,
> 
> I've got a wifi network set up in my house, but
> I've had problems with signal quality, because
> the wifi access point is in my office at one
> end of the house (so it can be CAT5'd to the
> firewall machine), and two of the other machines
> on the wifi segment are on the opposite side of
> the building. Only maybe 80ft away, but there's
> quite a bit of junk in between.
> 
> So I bought a Linksys WAP-11 AP on eBay, intending
> to get better coverage. The WAP-11 box works fine
> when I use it in place of my original AP.
> However, I'm not quite sure how to arrange for
> the WAP-11 to act as a "slave" of my old AP.
> Basically, I want the WAP-11 to sit on a shelf
> more-or-less in the center of the house, and
> relay traffic from the far-away machines to
> the old AP.  Has anyone done something like
> this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- JK
> 
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