NETGEAR N900

Advanced Settings
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N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4500v2
Wireless Repeating Function
You can set the router up to be used as a wireless access point (AP). Doing this enables the
router to act as a wireless repeater. A wireless repeater connects to another wireless router
as a client where the network to which it connects becomes the ISP service.
Wireless repeating is a type of Wireless Distribution System (WDS). A WDS allows a wireless
network to be expanded through multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to
link them.
The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.
Repeater
Base station
access point
access point
Figure 8. Wireless repeating scenario
Note: If you use the wireless repeating function, you need to select either
WEP or None as a security option in the Wireless Settings screen.
The WEP option displays only if you select the wireless mode Up to
54 Mbps in the Wireless Settings screen.
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 have to know the MAC addresses of the child repeater access
point.