Just about any 802.11n gear with a MIMO external antenna is going to provide superior range, even for g gear. I've never been a fan of Belkin equipment anyway.
That being said, you probably can just set them both up to use the same SSID and WPA key and I suspect it will work. Make sure you put them on non-overlapping channels to get the best signal quality. The downside, of course, is that the handoff may not be completely seamless and you'll have no way to ensure that a given device is connecting to the closest WAP. If you have the equipment anyway, why not just try it? Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 4:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] extending range > > I have a Belkin wireless #1Router F5D7231 working in a home that has very, > very poor reception outside of line of site,... with any wireless remote > device. The #1 Bilken works OK in two thirds of the house. The end third of > the house= MBR has no reception whatsoever. > So I got a second identical #2 Belkin F5D7231 on Ebay and ran a CAT 5e into > the room on that side of the house which I plugged into a LAN port on the #1 > router thirty feet away. > > The routers have a wireless bridge mode that does not work because there is > no reception of the #1 router to the #2 router in the MBR. > So, on the #2 router, I enabled it as a WAP and assigned it a IP number on > the #1 routers LAN. > > Can I now set up the #2 WAP with the same SSD and WPA-2 pass phrase as > the #1 router is using so that I get a seamless connection as you move from > one part of the house to another? Will this work? Or how should I go about > this? > > thanks > Winterlight
