WDS?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System

or

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/servermanager/windowsdeploymentservices.mspx?

I assume that it's the former rather than the latter.

There are 2 big drawbacks against WDS:
 * each hop cuts the bandwidth in *half*
 * Your security is severely limited - the only real access control
options are WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK. Anything else is proprietary to the AP
vendor you use.

Lack of standardization is the cause of the second point.

Osama Salah wrote:
> are there any drawbacks, disadvantages, pitfalls in implementing WDS in
> the company (about 1000) users?
> We have never used and a few users asked for it. I was wondering if
> there is anything I should be careful about or if it's all roses.

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