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adding a wireless bridge
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:52 pm
by kenny70
dont know if this is possible but can i use my dg834gt as a bridge/access point for my 7800dxl
The dg834gt has dgteam firmware so i can activate wireles bridging and repeating, i've also turned off dhcp on netgear, the netgear shows up under wireless bridge on 7800dxl i select it but thats as far as i get
kenny
Re: adding a wireless bridge
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:11 pm
by admin
bridge/ access point meaning AP+client mode or WDS? Only thing is the 834GT is 802.11g+ I think so even if it works it will only work in the 2.4Ghz 54Mbps.
Re: adding a wireless bridge
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:32 pm
by kenny70
admin wrote:bridge/ access point meaning AP+client mode or WDS? Only thing is the 834GT is 802.11g+ I think so even if it works it will only work in the 2.4Ghz 54Mbps.
not to sure what i need just thought i would be able to use it to connect my smart tv upstairs via a lan then connect wireless to internet through the 7800dxl and save running a long cable downstairs
kenny
Re: adding a wireless bridge
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:45 am
by billion_fan
kenny70 wrote:admin wrote:bridge/ access point meaning AP+client mode or WDS? Only thing is the 834GT is 802.11g+ I think so even if it works it will only work in the 2.4Ghz 54Mbps.
not to sure what i need just thought i would be able to use it to connect my smart tv upstairs via a lan then connect wireless to internet through the 7800dxl and save running a long cable downstairs
kenny
Try a manual setup, you will need to know the MAC addresses of both units to setup WDS.
Attached is a screen capture of where you will need to manually enter your netgears wireless MAC address.
Then you will need to do the same with on your netgear, enter the 7800DXLS wireless MAC into the netgear.
Then match the wireless channel, security type and password and they should then talk to each other
Re: adding a wireless bridge
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:40 pm
by kenny70
Excellent got it working after a few hours last night and 20 mins this morning, seems i was trying to change too many things
heres how i got it sorted
Entered the Netgear Mac in wireless bridge of 7800dxl
n netgear i enabled WDS and added the 7800dxl mac address
wouldnt work so i checked station info in 7800dxl to see if netgear was connected and found that for some reason the netgear mac address was different in that first 2 numbers where 06 and not 00 as netgear was advertising, changed it in wireless bridge area and worked right away.
happy as larry