On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:08:06 GMT Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
| On 4 Aug 2006 15:40:42 -0700, "pstock" <p.stock@stocknet.ca> wrote:
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|>can an AP communicate to a wifi router via wifi?
|
| A pair of routers running WDS can do exactly that. Each router can
| simultaneouly act as an access point (for wireless client connections)
| and as a transparent bridge to talk to the other router(s). See:
| | http://www.linksysinfo.org/portal/fo...ad.php?t=47118
| | http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2004/0...to_wds_bridge/ (10 pages)
|
| One catch is that traffic through two WDS bridges has it's maximum
| thruput cut in half (because only one transmitter can be on the air at
| a time). This is usually not a problem if you're sharing a broadband
| connection where the wireless is much faster than the broadband link.
| However, it might be a problem for computer to computer transfers over
| the WLAN.

You get the same problem with an access point serving 2 or more local
machines, for the traffic between those machines.

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