Claude Jones wrote:
On Sun January 29 2006 9:27 am, Craig White wrote:
If the second AP has a 'bridging mode' which would allow it to bridge via wireless to the first AP, that is what you apparently need.
http://tinyurl.com/9eohr The second graphic on this page perfectly portrays my topology except that there's only a single machine connected to the secondary AP. According to this page, "it probably won't work" - but a little further down, a post states that "some AP's can be configured to act as a repeater or wireless bridge, but it's fairly rare." It that's true, there doesn't seem to be any way of configuring this D-Link to be a wireless bridge or repeater, unless I'm missing something in the translation...
Most store bought AP don't support this setup. You can purchase a Wireless bridge to connect network B through the AP to everything else. The WRT54 family with OpenWRT, HyperWRT or the other 3rd party software can do this. You would keep one D-Link as an AP and get a WRT54GL (if you're buying new), setup the OpenWRT software as a client and connect to the D-Link. See this:
http://wiki.openwrt.org/ClientModeHowto