"dave" <bonanzaman@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a good non-WDS repeater out there?
> I tried to add a Dlink DWL-800AP+ to an Ambit 60740EUW wireless cable
> router with WEP and it didn't work at all.
> Not sure what the problem was, but it worked with a linksys
> non-encripted AP.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave

As Jeff said, consumer "repeating" is nasty. It may be ok for just tossing
typical internet traffic around, but for WLAN traffic it isn't efficient at
all. I used to do WDS until looking at what was really going on with SNMP
and wanting better pipes to stream WLAN multimedia traffic.

What I'm doing now achieves the same thing as a "repeater", without being
nasty.

Get both a wireless-ethernet bridge and a second AP. Connect the second AP
to the wireless-ethernet bridge (connected to the first AP over the air).
Use the same SSID as the first AP on the second AP, but on a different
channel.