Wireless Distribution System - NETGEAR JWNR2010v5 N300 User Manual

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Wireless Distribution System

You can set up the router to be used as a wireless base station or wireless repeater in a
wireless distribution system (WDS). A WDS lets you expand a wireless network through
multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to link them. A wireless base
station connects to the Internet, can have wired and wireless clients, and sends its wireless
signal to an access point that functions as a wireless repeater. A wireless repeater can also
have wired and wireless clients, but connects to the Internet through the wireless base
station.
The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.
Figure 6. Wireless repeating scenario
The router can function either as a base station or as a repeater:
• Wireless base station. The router acts as the parent access point, bridging traffic to and
from the child repeater access point, as well as handling wireless and wired local
computers. To configure this mode, you must know the MAC address of the child
repeater access point.
JWNR2010v5 N300 Wireless Router
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Repeater
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