Wireless AP Router HNW300APN2
User Manual 41
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:
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!
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.
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.
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