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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Netgear Wireless Bridging Overview

"Wireless Bridging is usually used to extend network coverage to locations physical cabling cannot conveniently reach.

As of July 2005, NETGEAR access points supporting WDS are WG302, WAG302, WG602v2, WG602v3 and ME103. WDS is supported between any of them, except the ME103, which can only WDS to another ME103. (The Wi-Fi Alliance do not certify WDS, so there is no guarantee that one model of access point can do WDS to a different model of access point.)
  • Technical Support does not provide free help setting up WDS between NETGEAR access points and non-NETGEAR equipment.
  • It is not possible to create wireless bridge between NETGEAR wireless routers and NETGEAR wireless access points."
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/960/~/wireless-bridging-overview


Network repeating allows two distant sections of a wireless network to communicate. This explains how to do wirelessrepeating with NETGEAR access points.
Other models and firmware may work similarly to this example:
  • WG602v2 access point, firmware version 3.2 RC6.
  • WG302 access point, firmware version 2.0.3.
  • 64-bit or 128-bit WEP (optional).
  • Access control list (optional).
  • No WPA/PSK— This type of WPA security will not work with repeating.

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