WDS is extremely tricky to setup. It requires matching brands of equipment,
in most cases. For example, I have accomplished it (just for fun, as I
don't need it), with Linksys equipment and third-party firmware.
Is your base station Apple?
Topm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:41 AM
Subject: [OM] OT - wireless network question
>
> Dear All
>
> Sorry, but I have another OT post.
>
> I am trying to use an Airport Express unit (802.11g relay/access
> point) with a broadband gateway (802.11g and Ethernet router/switch/
> bridge/cable modem) to extent the gateway's wireless range. I am
> having little luck in getting the remote wireless computer to
> recognise the relayed network.
>
> I have a feeling that it is the gateway that is not properly setup as
> the host of a wireless distribution system (WDS as Apple call it).
> Has anyone else solved the problem of relay or extending the range of
> a wireless network?
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
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> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
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