Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:

> arnstein@panix.com (David Arnstein) hath wroth:
>
> >Thanks for the response Jeff. I am looking at the Buffalo router, and
> >its slower cousin (ancestor?) the WHR-G54. The user manual does not
> >mention any bridging or client capability.
>
> The stock firmware does not have a client mode. That's why I
> suggested DD-WRT replacement firmware. Le Tour de Firmware:
>
> <snip: too long url>
>
> See under Wireless mode pulldown.
>
> >I don't think this would be a problem, because how would the router know
> >that I am using it as a bridge?
>
> Very easily. In infrastructure mode, there are access points and
> clients. The way they act and protocols are quite different.
> Normally, wireless routers and access points are not used as clients
> unless they have a client mode.
>

> Just to get complex, WDS (wireless distribution service) will do both
> simultaneously, which actually may be an advantage. If you plug
> directly into the ethernet port of the WDS client/bridge/access-point,
> then it will act as an ordinary client bridge. However, if you
> connect to it with another wireless client, it will extend your
> wireless network (at the expense of a 50% maximum thruput slowdown).

My D-Link DWL-G700AP does that too! D-Link calls that repeater mode.

This model is being sold as an access point.

BTW I didn't know that it could also act as a client - which I now see
that it can. I've been using it to extend the coverage of my Trendnet
TEW-510APB.

So, if that's a repeater, then what is an extender?