SMCWEB-N AP using WDS - who got it working?

[antowan]

smcweb-n AP using WDS - who got it working?

Cannot get WDS working for the life of me.

Using 2 of these and it simply won't work.

What's the trick?

 

[sn3rd]

What exactly is it doing/not doing ?

 

[antowan]

What exactly is it doing/not doing ?

Okay, this is the story:

Two locations. Office and House

Office has ADSL and one AP. The AP in the office is sharing Internet with wifi clients. No problem.

House. Need for web access in house. House is too far to be services by OFFICE AP, so a repeater is needed.

I cloned the two APs. Their settings and WDS enablers are identical. I did however make sure their respective MAC listings for eachother are correct. ie. they have eachother listed as respective WDS partner.

When I go to the house the HOUSE AP handles connections, but the Internet is not coming through. It is authenticating on its own in other words and is not repeating...

I need to know what settings it needs to be a proper WDS link...

 

[sn3rd]

So there's connectivity between the house and the office but no Internet connectivity?

 

[antowan]

So there's connectivity between the house and the office but no Internet connectivity?

nope. The wifi signal from OFFICE AP gets pretty close...

The only time the HOUSE CLIENT lights up and connect is when the 2nd AP is turned on, but the 2nd AP doesn't relay web traffic or remote LAN traffic at all...

 

[sn3rd]

Ok... So the APs are able to talk to each other?

Are you using dynamically assigned encryption keys or static encryption keys?

 

[sn3rd]

Are you able to give a printout of the settings you have entered?

 

[antowan]

Using static. Got it working now, but throughput is a bit dodge.

Will explain more in detail later.

 

[antowan]

Using static. Got it working now, but throughput is a bit dodge.

Will explain more in detail later.

 

[km2]

How dodge are we talking here? I see it available from Sahara for what is pretty cheap for a 802.11n AP, but the only review I can see of it is here. They talk about a short-range throughput of 18 megabits/sec which seems like something of a joke for an "n" router seeing as I get that on my "g" connection (I'd expect at least 50 megabits/sec from the 300 megabits/sec claim).

Maybe I'm just being too optimistic, has anyone else tried it?