[nycbug-talk] chaining wireless aps

[Brad Schonhorst]

On 10/18/07, steve rieger <riegersteve at gmail.com> wrote:
> heres the scenario
>
> wap1 connected to the interweb and serves the upper portion of the house
> wap2 is in the basement, have 2 dev servers there, and would like to not
> have to buy multiple wireless cards
>
> i've never daisy chained two waps (linksys running dd-wrt)
>
> want wap1 to be the internet for the house and wap2 to be see as a local
> hub by the dev-servers (and any laptops that get turned on down there)
>
> what setting do i use, any pointers ?

I've only done this with Apple Base Stations but try googling:

dd-wrt WDS

WDS is the term used for this (wireless distribution system)


-Brad