On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:46, Charles Curley wrote: > The other two will go in my office and lab. The one in the lab will > handle computers there via wired connections. The connection to the > ISP is in my office. One question is, can I route the lab traffic to > the Internet via the two wireless routers? Nothing in the manuals I've > seen clearly indicates whether I can do this or not.
You're right, the manual is not clear. It should state that it is *not* possible to link two access points using the standard firmware. I have gotten it to work, though, between a wrt54g and an actiondec dsl modem but it didn't work all that well for me and I don't recommend it. I had to enable client mode on the wrt54g which disables any access point features. That feature isn't available on the standard firmware. I upgraded to the Sveasoft firmware for that reason. The connection was flakey. It would give out every so often and I couldn't figure out why. Arp requests on the actiontec side would go unanswered. I don't know if it was the actiontec or the linksys. I ended up dragging a cable across the house instead. There is another option, WDS repeater mode. The Samadhi firmware I am running doesn't support it and I didn't bother looking any further since the Actiontec doesn't either. From what I gather, that's the proper way to link two APs. The latest Sveasoft firmware does support it and I believe the ewrt firmware does too. Corey
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