Hi all,
Do you see anything wrong with this arrangement?
I was under the impression that hooking up a common wireless-router via the numbered ports, rather than the WAN port, was the main thing to making it run like almost like a wireless switch, i.e. clients would receive DHCP from the upstream router.
The upstairs AP is consistently visible, but connecting to it is intermittent. Clients often get stuck on "acquiring network address".
(sorry, I just realized I don't know how to embed the image in the post body.)
Additional info:
I am giving the two router different SSIDs, example, kaon-L1 and kaon-L2.
old: kaon-L1 has channel 6 (with 40MHz width, wide channel: upper, status page says "Channel: 6+4")
kaon-L1 has channel 1 (standard 20MHz width)
kaon-L2 has channel 11
Both are using PSK WPA2-only, same password (is it OK to have the same password?)
after messing around with reboots and changing of SSID's, now one WinXP-SP3 netbook can see the internet wirelessly thru kaon-L2, (position: PC05).
But a BB9700 handset still cannot, even though it authenticates successfully, pageloading times out.
Do you see anything wrong with this arrangement?
I was under the impression that hooking up a common wireless-router via the numbered ports, rather than the WAN port, was the main thing to making it run like almost like a wireless switch, i.e. clients would receive DHCP from the upstream router.
The upstairs AP is consistently visible, but connecting to it is intermittent. Clients often get stuck on "acquiring network address".
(sorry, I just realized I don't know how to embed the image in the post body.)
Additional info:
I am giving the two router different SSIDs, example, kaon-L1 and kaon-L2.
old: kaon-L1 has channel 6 (with 40MHz width, wide channel: upper, status page says "Channel: 6+4")
kaon-L1 has channel 1 (standard 20MHz width)
kaon-L2 has channel 11
Both are using PSK WPA2-only, same password (is it OK to have the same password?)
after messing around with reboots and changing of SSID's, now one WinXP-SP3 netbook can see the internet wirelessly thru kaon-L2, (position: PC05).
But a BB9700 handset still cannot, even though it authenticates successfully, pageloading times out.
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