Wireless Distribution System (Wds) - NETGEAR N300 User Manual

5. If the other router or gateway in your network also has wireless capability, NETGEAR
recommends that you use a different wireless channel.
6. Click Apply.
The IP address of the modem router changes and you are disconnected. To reconnect,
close and restart your web browser, and type http://www.routerlogin.net.

Wireless Distribution System (WDS)

You can set up the modem router to be used as a wireless access point (AP). Doing this
enables the modem router to act as a wireless repeater. A wireless repeater connects to
another wireless modem router as a client where the network to which it connects becomes
the ISP service.
Wireless repeating is a type of Wireless Distribution System (WDS). A WDS allows a wireless
network to be expanded through multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to
link them. The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.
Base station
access point
Figure 12. Wireless repeating scenario
Note: To use the wireless repeating function, you need to select None as
the security option in the Wireless Setup screen and you cannot
select Auto Channel.
Wireless Base Station. The modem router acts as the parent access point, that bridges
traffic to and from the child repeater access point. The base station also handles wireless and
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