I have a Netgear wireless router (DG834Gv3) plugged into my broadband internet connection and hard-wired into my main PC. I recently bought a Bufallo Router / Wireless Access Point (WHR-HP-G54) and am trying to set this up so that it extends the range of my wireless network, and enables me to hard-wire other PCs, etc into it.
The problem that I have is that I can't seem to get my Buffalo Wireless Access Point to see the network. There is a "Bridge" mode on it, which I have set. The main router is configured with DHCP and I've tried setting the router with both a fixed IP address and to get a dynamic one – neither seems to make any difference.
There is a "WDS Mode" setting on the main router, which I've set it to "Wireless Point-to-point Bridge", but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be, or even any steps I could take to identify the problem?
Best Answer
Traditional "WDS" wireless links between wireless infrastructure devices require a bunch of manual setup, because the WDS-related sections of the 802.11 spec never specified an autonegotiation mechanism for WDS links.