Set Up The Base Station - NETGEAR WNDRMAC User Manual

N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDRMAC
Wireless Repeater. If your router is the repeater, select this check box.
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Repeater IP Address. If your router is the repeater, enter the IP address of the other
access point.
Disable Wireless Client Association. If your router is the repeater, selecting this check
box means that wireless clients cannot associate with it. Only LAN client associations are
allowed.
If you are setting up a point-to-point bridge, select this check box.
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If you want all client traffic to go through the other access point (repeater with wireless
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client association), leave this check box cleared.
Base Station MAC Address. If your router is the repeater, enter the MAC address for the
access point that is the base station.
Wireless Base Station. If your router is the base station, select this check box.
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Disable Wireless Client Association. If your router is the base station, selecting this
check box means that wireless clients cannot associate with it. Only LAN client
associations are allowed.
Repeater MAC Address (1 through 4). If your router is the base station, it can act as the
"parent" of up to 4 other access points. Enter the MAC addresses of the other access
points in these fields.

Set Up the Base Station

The wireless repeating function works only in hub and spoke mode. The units cannot be
daisy-chained. You have to know the wireless settings for both units. You have to know the
MAC address of the remote unit. First, set up the base station, and then set up the repeater.
To set up the base station:
Set up both units with exactly the same wireless settings (SSID, mode, channel, and
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security). Note that the wireless security option has to be set to None or WEP.
Advanced Settings
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