Planning For Wireless Bridging (Wds) - TRENDnet TEW-750DAP User Manual

TEW-750DAP
TRENDnet User's Guide

Planning for Wireless Bridging (WDS)

Note: By default, the device is set to function in access point mode. WDS is a subset option of Access Point Mode. You must set your access point device mode to operate in Access Point
first in order to configure WDS. Please ensure the Device Mode is set to Access Point under Main > Device Mode.
Before configuring WDS, please ensure the following items first:
1. Choose which band to use for bridging (2.4GHz or 5GHz). If all of your WDS supported devices do not the 5GHz band, you may need to choose the 2.4GHz.
2. Make sure different IP addresses are assigned to each WDS supported wireless device used for bridging. (ex. 192.168.10.100,192.168.10.99,192.168.10.98, etc.) to avoid IP address
conflicts. See the section Change your access point IP address page 40 for changing the access point IP address.
3. Please ensure that only one DHCP server is assigning IP addresses on your network to avoid IP address conflicts. Typically, most routers used in a home environment include a built-in
DHCP server (typically enabled by default) to assign IP addresses to local client devices automatically. Please make sure that only one device on your network has DHCP server enabled and
disabled on all others to avoid IP address conflicts.
4. WDS bridging requires all WDS supported devices to use the same wireless network name (SSID), wireless channel, and wireless security settings on all WDS supported wireless devices.
Refer to page 10 "Using access point mode" to configure wireless network name (SSID) and wireless channel settings. Refer to page 12 "Wireless Networking and Security" to configure
wireless security settings.
5. You will require the wireless MAC address of each WDS supported device. On any network, each network device has a unique 6-digit MAC (Media Access Control) address. For each
WDS supported device, all of the remote wireless MAC addresses of the other WDS supported device you are bridging. (Ex. In diagram on the next page, AP1 needs to enter the remote
MAC addresses (red text) of AP2, AP3, and AP4. AP2 needs to enter the remote MAC address of AP1 only, AP3 and AP4 also need to enter the remote MAC address of AP1 only). You can
find the wireless MAC address of the access point in the management page under Status > Device Information.
Note: Please note that 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands will have two different MAC addresses.
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