| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 73797 | 2006-11-01 03:38:00 | Additional AP | moses (9010) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 495699 | 2006-11-01 03:38:00 | Hi All I Currently a home network with wired and wireless clients thru a LINKSYS WRG54T wireless WAN router this is fine for the part of the house that can get signal for the wireless clients My query is ... I have a Genius GW-7200AP Access point I want to hardwire to my existing router so I can get signal to another part of the house (house is rather large) is it possible to do this with this current setup and get the existing router to assign IP via this AP (or does the AP do its own assigning ) and will all clients connecting to the new ap be able to use the internet as well ? Thanks in advance Moses |
moses (9010) | ||
| 495700 | 2006-11-01 03:54:00 | Have u read the manual / gone into the config on the AP? To see how (or if) what u want to do will work? It most probably has an option for a key and WPA/WPA2. Hopefully the clients and the router have something better than WEP encryption. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 495701 | 2006-11-01 04:01:00 | If you run a network cable from the Linksys to the Genius AP then the wireless clients will get an IP address from the Linksys (or whatever is your DHCP server). They don't have to get an IP address from the Genius AP. All they will do is connect to it wirelessly then search for a DHCP server on the network. You will have to setup the Genius on a different wireless channel though otherwise the two wireless networks might interfere with each other. You can get Access Points that can act as a wireless bridge / range extender so you would not have to run a network cable to it from the Linksys. In the web config it would pick up the existing Linksys WLAN and give you an option to connect to it. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 495702 | 2006-11-01 06:05:00 | It'll work fine, the easist way to set it up will be with two seperate wireless networks, using seperate SSID's and channels etc. They'll still be connected to the same network, and thus gain IP from the same DHCP server, and use the same IP range. Wireless bridge dont actually increase the range of the wireless network, they mearly connect 2 wired networks together. E.g the original AP still broadcasts the signal, but the bridge only receives. If your new AP has support for WDS that might be an option, but everytime you add another wireless client that reduces the bandwidth. Your best bet might be to add an aftermarket antenna to your original AP, probably cost the same as a new AP but could potential offer greater range. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 495703 | 2006-11-01 10:23:00 | It'll work fine, the easist way to set it up will be with two seperate wireless networks, using seperate SSID's and channels etc. They'll still be connected to the same network, and thus gain IP from the same DHCP server, and use the same IP range. Wireless bridge dont actually increase the range of the wireless network, they mearly connect 2 wired networks together. E.g the original AP still broadcasts the signal, but the bridge only receives. If your new AP has support for WDS that might be an option, but everytime you add another wireless client that reduces the bandwidth. Your best bet might be to add an aftermarket antenna to your original AP, probably cost the same as a new AP but could potential offer greater range. Eh?, I believe the 2nd AP, recieves the 1st signal and boosts it? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 495704 | 2006-11-01 10:28:00 | You will need to set up the second AP as a repeater, if this is not possible due to the firmware running on the genius you will have to swap them around. Use the Genius as the main AP, do a firmware upgrade on the Linksys to dd-wrt and run it in repeater mode. Else run an ethernet cable to the second AP, kind of defeats the purpose of wireless though. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 495705 | 2006-11-01 10:32:00 | You will need to set up the second AP as a repeater, if this is not possible due to the firmware running on the genius you will have to swap them around. Use the Genius as the main AP, do a firmware upgrade on the Linksys to dd-wrt and run it in repeater mode. Else run an ethernet cable to the second AP, kind of defeats the purpose of wireless though. Thank you Rob, couldnt think of the terminology for the repeater!...LOL |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 495706 | 2006-11-01 10:57:00 | Asking a question myself here. Peter made comment that "two seperate wireless networks, using seperate SSID's and channels etc". Now I have a site with 5 AP's with the channels separated the best I can but all on the same SSID. When I set this up I was getting conflicting information whether or not to have different SSID's. Now what I have works fine with no problems but should it have different SSID's and if so why? As I say what I've got works! |
berryb (99) | ||
| 495707 | 2006-11-01 11:12:00 | You dont need different SSID's, but it makes it easier when connecting as you know exactly what you are connecting to. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 495708 | 2006-11-01 17:12:00 | You dont need different SSID's, but it makes it easier when connecting as you know exactly what you are connecting to. Thats what I thought. From a user point they don't care what AP they are connected to, just as long as it works! |
berryb (99) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||