Advanced Settings
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N450 Wireless Router WNR2500
The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.
Repeater
Base station
access point
access point
Figure 8. Wireless repeating scenario
The router can function either as a base station or as a repeater:
• Wireless base station. The router acts as the parent access point, bridging traffic to and
from the child repeater access point, as well as handling wireless and wired local
computers.
To configure this mode, you must know the MAC addresses of the child
repeater access point.
• W
ireless repeater.
The router sends all traffic from its local wireless or wired computers
to a remote access point. To configure this mode, you must know the MAC address of the
remote parent access point.
For you to set up a wireless network in a WDS,
the following conditions must be met for both
access points:
• Both access points must use the same SSID, wireless channel, and encryption mode.
• Both access points must be on the same LAN IP subnet. That is, all the access point LAN
IP addresses are in the same network.
• All LAN devices (wired and wireless computers) must be configured to operate in the
same LAN network address range as the access points.
• The channel selection on the access points cannot be
Auto (see Basic Wireless Settings
on page 28).
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