At 03:23 PM 7/5/2010, you wrote:
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.
I have another N router here and it won't reach the MBR either. I am in a dead zone here for 30 years. Probably Marine band interference or maybe just my location. I have to employ a 300 dollar cell phone booster in order to use my cell phone inside my house.
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?
agreed. I think I will give that a try. thanks
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
