WAP11 to WET11: Easy, Cheap Wireless Bridging
by Glenn Fleishman09/11/2002
"Only bridge," E.M. Forster would have written if he had read my article last year on connecting wired networks with a pair of Linksys WAP11 wireless access points (APs) set to bridge mode. Judging by reader email, "only bridge" is a plaintive cry for many small network builders. A new and better option from Linksys should answer that call, making it simpler and more affordable--and more hardware-agnostic to implement.
About a year ago, I provided detailed instructions on linking two wired networks using a pair of inexpensive, WAP11 Wi-Fi-based wireless access points.
Until last week, the only easier way to carry out this task had a much higher price tag. The new Linksys WET11 brings a new kind of simplicity for bridging smaller networks over a wireless link, with an appropriate price tag: $130 list price.
The point of the wired-to-wireless-to-wired bridge is to connect networks too remote or too inaccessible for a simple wire to reach them. The networks might be on opposite sides of a wall that you can't or don't want to drill through, across the street from one another, or on either ends of a 20-mile, point-to-point antenna link.
The WAP11 solution was a focused one: the two WAP11s (or more for multipoint links) were switched from AP infrastructure mode, the standard Wi-Fi hub in the hub-and-client network model, to a dedicated point-to-point or point-to-multipoint wireless device.
The most popular question from last year's article about the WAP11s was: Do they really have to connect to a likeminded partner? Can't we just configure one WAP11 and have it hook into a regular AP?
No, no, no! It's not an issue of RTFM, but rather wishful thinking. The WET11 turns that wish into reality. The WET11 can handle up to 30 Ethernet devices and bridge the traffic to any Wi-Fi-certified AP.
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| The Linksys WET11 Wireless Bridge. |
Instead of buying two dedicated pieces of equipment (albeit they're only about $99 each), you need to buy just a single $129 device. Instead of messing with strange configuration options using a USB interface that the WAP11 required, you can now use a simple Web interface to point to existing APs you may already be using.
I'm exaggerating about the Web interface a little: with a WET11 out of the box, you have to configure it using a clever little Windows-only program that performs cross-subnet discovery for WET11s. (Can anyone say, "Rendezvous?")
However, it appears that the WET11 is always set to 192.168.1.225 by default. Switch your local IP or add
a local Ethernet alias to the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet and you should be able to connect initially via a Web
browser. The user name and password are both "admin".
The Info tab shows all of the current settings for the WET11, including any wireless networks the device is aware of.
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| The "Wireless" tab of the WET11's Web Based Configuration Interface. |
The Wireless tab lets you choose to configure the WET11 to connect either in ad hoc (machine-to-machine bridging) or in infrastructure mode, the standard for connecting in a wireless LAN. The rest of the settings are familiar to anyone who has added a wireless client to a network (enter the settings necessary for a single client). You can also control some of the tweakier settings, like Transmission Rate (locking the WET11 into strict 11Mbps mode) and access-point density, which controls how much interference elimination the system tries for.
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In the IP Addr tab, set the WET11's information. You may want to opt for a static address, even a static NAT address, to make it easier to find the device next time. In the Admin tab you can and should change the user name and password access.
After saving your changes, the WET11 fires right up and connects. A warning: I tried this in our existing network, and the WET11 was rebroadcasting MAC addresses over its client connection to our Apple AirPort Base Station and really confused the DHCP clients. Be smarter than me, and run your test outside of your existing LAN by connecting one or more computers to a hub, and in turn connecting it to the WET 11.
In the "nice touch" department, the WET11 has an external switch by which you can set whether its Ethernet port is crossover or passthrough, avoiding any need for a special cable. (It ships with a two-foot Ethernet cable!)
If you're trying to bridge several different networks to a single AP, you can hang a WET11 off each of the remote LANs as spokes pointing to that hub. However, keep in mind that many APs have a limit, often not stated clearly, of how many MAC addresses or unique sessions it can handle at once. Because the WET11 is forwarding a ton of separate machines onto another AP, a single AP might wind up not handling a number of spokes.
As another side option, you could take a WET11 and plug it via a wired connection into an AP and daisy chain pairs of these units in a primitive and cheap mesh network to create pods of wireless access, while forwarding a single Internet connection from some part of the network. Latency might be high, however.
The WET11 also has a removable antenna, as do many of Linksys's wireless transceivers, which allows you to swap in a higher-powered, inexpensive antenna. The WET11 is ideally suited to bridge to a central AP in a neighborhood area network, a community network, or a distributed small office network.
One of my officemates recently bought a home about one and a half miles as the crow flies from our new office. His new home and our office are both roughly the same elevation even though we don't have precise line of sight -- a few trees are too tall. We're currently planning to deploy a couple of 24 dBi parabolic antennas and a WET11, and see what happens.
Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology journalist contributing regularly to The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Macworld magazine, and InfoWorld. He maintains a wireless weblog at wifinetnews.com.
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Lan into Wet11
2005-12-27 12:09:15 steve105 [Reply | View]
The problem I have using a LAN to the Wet11 to the access point is lost packets on the lan. There are several computers (3) connected to a switch which connects to the Wet11 which connects to the access point which connects to the cable modem. If I ping the access point on one computer and do a speed test on another, I get lost packets on the ping. If I do not do a download test and ping, there are no lost packets. If I then exchange the switch and create a second network with a router to the Wet11 into the WAN....everything works fine but other wireless devices cannot access the lan.
Ideas? Thanks.
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wet11
2005-12-20 15:04:36 turtle1 [Reply | View]
Have my network in place and in working condition with a WET11 bridge. Can I replaced the WET11 bridge with the newer version WET54G bridge?
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Need Help Please
2005-08-10 15:11:11 mrsmile25 [Reply | View]
I have a unique issue, I think. Basically, I want a bridge to grab the public internet in my complex and send it to my cable port on my wireless router. I can't get it to connect to the internet.
Complex Wireless Internet signal > My Bridge > My Wireless Router > My Laptop
How do I hook this up?
Do I set up my bridge with my SSID and Channel? How do I set up the bridge to grab the internet signal? Is it right to plug the bridge into the cable port of the wireless router? I'm really confused with this.
Thanks for your help.
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Long Distance Wireless
2005-07-07 19:50:59 LarryJ [Reply | View]
I do not have high speed Internet in my area, but it is available about 2.5 miles away. I have 2-24dbi parabolic dish's. Do you have any suggestions to which would be the best/cheapest wireless bridge equipment to set this up with?
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BEF11
2005-04-30 10:54:32 tns1 [Reply | View]
Linksys says that two BEF11s won't work as I have described. I am not sure why unless the router cant act as a wireless client.
I am really just trying to give the remote LAN access to my internet connection only. I dont want machines on the remote LAN to share anything else with the main LAN.
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BEF11
2005-05-25 08:39:39 garyasi [Reply | View]
I would recommend the Senao CB3 for this. It is a 200mw 802.11b dumb bridge. You can even reflash one to be a 200mw AP.
We have a CB3 flashed to be an AP and with a WET11 20' away with clear LOS the WET11 reads only a 42% signal. We put a CB3 at the same location and get 100% signal quality. The CB3 comes standard with a 3dbi rubber duck antenna but when you remove the case (4 screws) you can plug any external antenna into it. It has a MMCX connector on it.
We get them for about $85 (used) but have not had any problems with them.
I have successfully used 2 CB3 in point to point connection at over a mile - out of the box.
They even support Power over Ethernet with no additional equipment. Simply splice the power cord into the ethernet cable at one end and the unit extracts it through the ethernet port on the unit.
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BEF11S4 instead of WET11
2005-04-28 17:26:13 tns1 [Reply | View]
I'd like to wirelessly connect two wired LANs that are about 1/2 mile apart using a cantenna or parabolic dish pair. The main LAN has a gateway configured BEF11' and 3PCs, and the remote LAN is 2PCs using dialup.
While I see how the WET11 could be used, it seems I would still need an extra hub switch or router. The BEF11' is cheaper than the WET11, and looks more versatile. The plan is to replace one antenna of my gateway configured BEF11' with some LMR400+antenna for LAN A, and duplicate this setup on the far end.
So unless I'm missing something here, I should get the PtP wireless link plus allow local wireless connections at each end too (2nd antenna). What isnt clear is how the two routers should be configured for this setup.
Will 2 BEF11's work as I suggest?
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wap mac address issue
2005-04-06 12:06:14 vw151 [Reply | View]
I set something like this up a few weeks ago. I needed a good way to connect my 5 wired computers to my neighbors wireless internet connection. I purchased an me101 (netgear equivalent to wet11). I found that I could connect to my neighbors router in 2 ways. Either I could connect the me101 to one of my switched ethernet LAN ports and let all of my wired computers pull an IP from the DHCP serving on my neighbors router (basically as this article describes) and become part of their lan. This is not much of an issue for me because I only have 5 computers. The person writing this article did mention that some APs have a limited # of MACs it will allow to connect to it and this is where the second solution comes in.
I connected the me101 to my WAN port on my wired router, and assigned a static IP that connects to my neighbors router. That way I only have one MAC and IP in their router and am using NAT to provide internal IPs seperate from their lan for my 5 computers.
Anyway the point is if you don't need to be on the LAN of the network you are connecting to and you want to limit the number of IPs you show in their router, use a cheap wired router to seperate your network with your wireless bridge serving the purpose of a cable modem or something like that
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Further clarification
2004-06-23 12:51:26 sholliday [Reply | View]
Wow, this is great information.
I had a few clarification questions:
#1 Can the WET11 run in infastructure mode? As the screen shot suggests?
#2 Can the WET11 be attached to a switch (example linksys EZXS55W )? The goal here to be able to provide wireless (through the WET11) ~and have a few ports. Let's say I have 2 desktops with LAN/NIC's and one wireless laptop (all 3 of these depending upon the WET11 (laptop) and EZXS55W (2 desktops) ). I would like my desktops to be able to talk to each other at a higher speed (lots of big file copying) via the switch, but still be able to get to the internet via the EZXS55W to WET11 to WAP11 (to internet) route.
#3 The WAP11. What is its setup? I think it is out of the box "Access Point", because of the nature of the WET11. And (if I'm correct with "Access Point"), I'm assuming that wireless devices can communicate with the WAP11 also.
#4 Due to the nature of the WET11, can a BEFW11S4 be substituted for the WAP11 in this scenario? If you haven't tested it, are there any "flags" going off for you if someone were to use the BEFW11S4?
Thanks for the article. I didn't realize the capabilites of the WET11 until reading your article.
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Working Scenario
2004-06-30 07:06:06 sholliday [Reply | View]
I got this scenario to work, for internet searchers out there:
Cable Modem
(attached with wire to)
BEFW11S4 (router & 4 port switch & and AP)
((((wireless))))
WET11
(attached with wire (via "uplink port")) to
BEFSR41 (4 port non-wireless router & switch)
The settings/hardware in my scenario:
BEFW11S4 ( SSID = "ncstatewolfpack" , DHCP = "on" , IP remained static at "192.168.1.1" )
WET11 ( SSID = "ncstatewolfpack" , IP left static at "192.168.1.225" , I renamed the device name to "thebridge" for kicks)
BEFSR41 ( No SSID , DHCP = "off" , IP left static at "192.168.1.2" (not the default of 1.1))
I'm still waiting for my WAP11 to arrive from an (auction site) seller. I predict all I have to do is plug in the WAP11 into the BEFSR41, and that will be that (and set the SSID to something that isn't "ncstatewolfpack", like "ncstatewolfpack2" or something, I believe this IS necessary, but can't be sure until testing it).
I had some trouble finding some setup information, so I am posting here. Email me at sloan attttt ipass dotttttt net if you appreciate the information.
Thanks Glen for the article and info again. There are probably newer/better scenarios now with wirelessG, but I was able to get all my equipment thru the auction site for under $100. (I already had the BEFW11S4 and cable modem though.)
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RE: wap-11 antenna
2004-03-09 15:35:21 bevins [Reply | View]
The model is qd-2402
Bob
bob at rbevins.com
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wap-11 antenna
2004-03-09 15:33:30 bevins [Reply | View]
I have two wap-11's and I am losing packets all over the place. Linksys told me to purchase an antenna for one side. I have this antenna:
http://www.synertechwireless.com/and-qd-2402.html
http://www.antennasystems.com/conifer.html
Would this work on one of the wap11's and I leave the dual omni stock antenna's on the other?
Bob
bob at rbevins.com
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WET11 through a hub?
2003-11-20 06:37:19 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have a BEFW11S4 (linksys wireless router) on one side and a WET11 on the other side, connected to a Win2K PC. Works great. The BEFW11S4 acts as a DHCP server so the Win2k PC gets a dynamic IP address. The WET11 is configured with a static IP.
Now if I connect the WET11 to hub (straight through cable, WET11 in the II position), and the PC to the hub, I can see the LAN light on on the WET11 and both WET11 and PC lights on on the hub, but the PC can't get an IP address. In fact if I do a "ipconfig /renew", after a while the LAN light for PC on the hub goes off.
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WET11 through a hub?
2004-01-15 14:12:18 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have the exact same issue, I tried the firmware update. Show in the manual this can be done. If I find the problem will post it. -
WET11 through a hub?
2004-02-19 21:51:12 simonc800 [Reply | View]
i helped my friend with his wet11 a while back with the same issue. If I remember it correctly, this is what you have to do.
1. Switch the lever to II position
2. Connect it to an open port of your hub, not the up-link port.
3. Connect the rest of PCs to other open ports.
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WET11 and 24dbi antenna connection.
2003-11-17 09:42:36 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I want to buy 2 WET11s and 2 24dbi antennas from http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hg2424g.php and bridge my office and home networks. I read that I need "reverse polarity SMA" connectors to connect the antenna to the WET11.
Is this correct? Has anyone done this and if so, what size wire was used and what exact connectors do I need? Can I use RG-6 or RG-59 coax cable? Any other suggestions? Thanks for all the great info here!
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WET11 and 24dbi antenna connection.
2003-11-23 16:20:47 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
www.hdcom.com makes it easier. yes rp-sma is the right connector. it is the same on linksys wmp11 pci card we use with 50 feet of LM R 400 cable and 14 dbi directional antenna from HD. of course we are only going 2000 to 2500 feet from our linksys wap11 w/ 13 dbi omni on it.
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Router>WET11>Router??
2003-11-06 22:11:29 blane64 [Reply | View]
Here is what I want to do: Get higher speed access in my workshop which is approx 250m from my house. I have a cable modem and Netgear wireless router in the house. I want to use a WET11 or Netgear ME101 (any opinions on that choice?) to send LAN out the the shop. In the shop I want to have another wireless router, another Netgear that I already have. Will it work to have 2 routers on the network, or will they somehow confict? Maybe I should just plug an AP into the WET11 instead?
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hangup
2003-06-13 02:25:25 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Hello, I have a little problem with Wet11. In my network we are using about 40 of them, and some of them are regularly hanging up. We tried to change firmware, and to use ups (I heard that the power was the problem) but it didn't solve it. If anybody has na idea how to do it please send me mail mike@oslink.pl Thanks in advance
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WET11 to WAP11 at 400M?
2003-06-12 18:00:20 schraudog [Reply | View]
I need to bridge a LAN in a home to a Workshop w/ good LOS 400M away (hay field). I am considering using flat 14dBi patch, or yagi external antennae. Can you hook up an external antenna to one side of the WAP11? Does it matter which one? and will the other still offer WAP to the building on that side
I also considered using WAP54G and WET54G but the gent at linksys says the antennae are "integrated" Does that mean I can't do it unless I am very good w/ a soldering iron (I AM NOT)? Any body else considered or have gone this route?! tIA
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WET11 to WAP11 at 400M?
2003-11-23 16:25:53 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
yes you can hook up a external directional to one and the other stock will still supply the blg. check out www.hdcom.com
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wet11/philips i200
2003-02-22 14:59:29 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
All I want to do is to use the WET11 to 'feed' a philips i200 internet radio wirelessly. The philips is set up for an ethernet connection. I have a cable/dsl modem connected to a netgear mr814 router and 2 pc's are on this wlan. All I need to do is set up the WET11 to allow me to connect it to the philips 1200 through the ethernet port and have it link to the wlan to get the internet radio up and running wirelessly. Anyone know how? -
wet11/philips i200
2003-02-22 15:07:00 eggboard [Reply | View]
Set up the Philips on the Ethernet network first. Then set up the WET11 to connect to your WLAN and confirm that it is through its status page. Then disconnect the Philips from the wired LAN and plug it into the WET11.
To the Philips radio, the WET11 is invisible. The WET11 proxies its MAC address to the Ethernet network and brings Ethernet traffic back to the Philips.
Have you tried this and it failed, or have you wondered how to do it before trying it?
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european/non european versions?
2002-12-31 01:53:41 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
how to know one version from another? hawe bought
it in Europa, but don't see any labels etc, hawe
flashed with 1.4.3 firmware (was 1.3.2) -
channels 12-13, link quality, transmission rate gone... Latest european firmware - only 1.3.2
(buggy one)
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The Airport problem
2002-12-20 11:43:17 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Our test bring us to the fact that there was a incompatibility in the administration header portion of the implemented 802.11 script between Prism and Lucent chipset.
The link was possible but the link quality degrade under heavy load.
The solution seems to use same chipset between client and AP.
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You didn't make an antenna error?
2002-11-17 18:33:42 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I don't understand your post below saying you made an antenna error. First of all, the output of the WET11 isn't 100mW/20dBm, it's 71mW amplified by a 5dB antenna to 100mW. So if you replace the 5dB antenna with a 24dB antenna, you are starting with 71mW. Second, for a 24dB antenna, you could use up to 250mW and still be within limits for a PtP link. So using a 24dB antenna with a WET11 isn't even close to breaking any rules???
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wet11 vs wap11 for bridging
2002-11-17 14:56:21 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I read through the wap11 user manual, after reading here that wap11v2.2 also works as a bridge. But it appears that you need to use both of the two antennas on the wap11, keeping them parallel. If I were going to do a long distance bridge with directional antenna's, wouldn't the wet11 be the no-brainer choice based on it's single antenna?
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WET 11 (Da Bomb)
2002-11-09 20:03:24 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Makes a mighty fine wireless internet CPE product!
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wet 11 useless
2002-11-07 22:05:17 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have an airport base station, a wet11, a mac G4 with 9.2, a w2k laptop, and a powerpc 7500,os 8.2, with ethernet port. The wet11 links to the airport (i can see it pulling an ip address in the config from the air port) but only works (internet, network functions) when attached to a PC. When connected to the apple it does nothing, in fact the apple does not even pull an ip from the dhcp, if the cable going in to the wet is plugged into the base station it works fine. Any ideas....help -
wet 11 useless
2003-09-06 05:38:18 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I had the same problem with an IBM Think Pad. The Think Pad simply would not see the WET11, and the lan LED would not light on the WET 11 when connected to the Think Pad. If I hooked the WET 11 to a switch and then connected the Think Pad to the same switch, "bingo" the two would see each other and work fine, but hooked directly together... nothing. I had four WET 11's and they all displayed the same problem. Through a switch they would work fine. Connected directly with the laptop they wouldn't. I was beginning to think I had a voltage problem between the laptop and the WET 11 that the switch was compensating for, but I was wrong. I finally solved the problem by uninstalling my ethernet card and reinstalling it. After that everything worked without having to use a switch as an intermediary. Go figure!
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Antennas
2002-11-03 19:26:54 amdenver [Reply | View]
Ran into this site while researching antennas:
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/antennas_2400.php
No. Do not own any stock of this company :)
Ahmed
Denver, Colorado
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details
2002-10-08 02:45:40 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I would appreciate more details on wet11,concernig it's coverage range where their is no direct line of sight.thankyou
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details
2002-10-08 02:45:10 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I would appreciate more details on wet11,concernig it's coverage range where their is no direct line of sight.thankyou
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Only marginal success
2002-09-26 13:44:23 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
The WET11 finds my AirPort base station, and I can see the Internet from behind the WET11... that's until I restart my Mac. Then it all stops working.
I can't see any AppleTalk resources from behind the WET11... no LaserWriter or FileSharing. Nothing.
I'm not a newbie... I have a wireless LAN of Macs and PCs, all sharing a broadband connection. The WET11 just doesn't want to work. I'm hoping a firmware update is in the making.
If anyone has any success, I'd appreciate hearing from you. trodgers@mac.com.
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WET11 on airport network
2002-09-20 05:47:22 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Hello
I just picked up a WET11 and spent the better part of the day trying to get it to work on an airport basestation network. I connected it to a imac in bridge mode and after entering the settings (as infrastructure mode) it was able to scan my network and seems to have connected to the network as evidenced by the green wan light.
I can't however see anything on the network from the imac. No fileserver connections, no internet connection via gateway router etc.
I called linksys tech support and they are clueless, unfortunately not knowing anything about apple airport networks. I did flash the firmware to 1.3.2 but have not had the chance to see if this has solved the problem.
Any ideas would be very appreciated.
thanks
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help
2002-09-19 13:13:52 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Hello from France :)
I am thinking to buy some WET11, WAP11 ....... howerver I have some question:
In the WET11 user guide ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pdf/wet11_ug.pdf page 7 fig 3-3 we can see that the WET11 is able to manage at the same time both briging and AP the laptop can discuss with one or the other WET11
my questions are:
1) is it possible to connect the WET11 on a WAP11 to foward the signal?
Wireless routeur ---- ---WET11___WAP11 --- ---c
2) is it mandatory to put something on the 10Base-T port ?
Wireless routeur ---- ---WET11 --- ---(Wireless client + computer) does it works ???
Wireless routeur ---- ---WET11 --- ---(WET11+ computer) does it works ???
Thanks in advance for your feedback, even if it is in french ;)
Romain
Romain.mautin@freesbee.Fr
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Wet 11 and Apple Airport
2002-09-19 10:19:57 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have an Apple Aiport with oneclient (iBook) and I am considering adding the WET 11 to my iMac and possibly my network printer.
Has anyone experienced any conflicts using a single airport and adding clients using the WET 11?
I spoke to Linksys (via e-mail) and they suggested "dumping" the WET 11 during set up. I am assuming this means to perform a hard reset on the device - is this correct? is it necessary?
Thanks for any help!
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WAP11 v2.2 can't do this?
2002-09-12 18:57:12 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
The docs seems to imply it can, but it's kind of confusing: ( ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pdf/wap11v22_ug.pdf , page 16)
"Access Point Client - When set to Access Point Client mode, the Access Point Client is able to talk to one remote access point within its range. This mode allows the Access Point Client to act as a client of a remote access point. The Access Point Client cannot communicate directly with any wireless clients. A separate network attached to the Access Point Client can then be wirelessly bridged to the remote access point. Enter the required LAN MAC address of the remote access point." -
WAP11 v2.2 can't do this?
2002-09-12 20:33:45 eggboard [Reply | View]
It is confusing because its intent is to bridge a single MAC address as a single-user client adapter. The WAP11 is really an AP, a network-bridge (when paired with another WAP11 or a similarly firmware equipped unit), or a single-unit Ethernet-to-wireless adapter.
The documentation seems to imply that you can bridge traffic from multiple devices to a single wireless AP, but in practice, I don't believe this works. I just purchased a v2.2 WAP11 and so will try it out as part of an update to the article above that I'm working on. I'll also be talking to the Linksys product manager and will clarify this issue.
The WET11 uses a somewhat slicker approach, including the Web interface, and appears to be translating the MAC addresses of devices attached to it through an Ethernet hub into a single MAC address that it creates a client association over to an AP. -
Yes, the WAP11 v2.2 can do this
2002-09-13 22:04:14 eggboard [Reply | View]
I'm hearing from more and more people who have managed to get the WAP11 v2.2 to act as a bridge, and I'll be following up on this. The WAP11's initial release, which I wrote about last year, didn't work in this mode, and I've missed this development. I have both version 1.4 and 2.2 firmware WAP11's and will be testing them (and monitoring their traffic) alongside a WET11 in the near future for a future article.
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the WET is all wet, WAP11's are still a better device
2002-09-12 16:10:11 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
You should RTFM. You put One AP ( I use a DLINK-1000AP) into normal mode. And put a WAP11 into
Client Mode .. and WHAMO you got all the functionalty of a WET. Its cheaper.. has 2 antennas, and If I reconfigure later I can use the WAP for other stuff.. the WET is just a WAP11 stuck in client AP mode and they charge you more for it.
Thats the just silly. Until the WET is $<40 its a waste. WAP11's are more bang for less bucks! -
the WET is all wet, WAP11's are still a better device
2003-06-05 19:56:28 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I tried putting a wap11 into client mode to connect to a linksys w/ built in router (not a wap11). it didn't work. in fact, i've been reading that client mode will only work w/ communicating with another wap11. maybe i should try upgrading the firmware.
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My antenna error
2002-09-12 13:48:57 eggboard [Reply | View]
An alert reader pointed out that the WET11 has 100 mW output, which would make a 24 dBi antenna produce way, way over the legal 1W emitted radiation (EIRP). I was originally planning to use the antenna with a 30 mW device, and didn't recalculate.
Likewise, adding third-party antennas to licensed equipment is de facto illegal. The FCC licenses only particular antennas with particular gear, not separately.
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Receive sensitivity???
2002-09-12 11:48:28 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
All other Linksys WiFi products are sooo bad when it comes to receive sensitivity (= range). Does the WET11 do it any better? How can a review not cover this?
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Intel 2011B/PRO??
2002-09-12 10:44:14 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have it setup as following:
|hub other computers connected
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fw (linux w pci-wlan and lan to a hub)
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| <-wireless
Intel 2011B/PRO AP
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| <-wireless
Intel 2011B/PRO AP
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| Wired Ethernet
So the 2011B/PRO works flawlessly :)
But a bit too expensive...
/R
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Will it work as a relay?
2002-09-12 08:30:47 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I'm trying to set up a long distance WiFi link (almost 17 miles) I have access to a tower in the middle. Could I use one of these on that tower to "repeat" my signal? -
Will it work as a relay?
2003-04-02 11:42:04 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Yes it does! Im doing exactly the same thing to relay signal from and to an AP on the upper east side NY City. I dont have line of sight and Im connecting to an AP about 6 blocks away using a Fab corp dish antenna. Wet 11 is pluged into my netgear AP with a cat5 cable and the relay works like a top. Fot the 17 miles you seek it may need some engineering on your part to go the distance but the principle works excelent. Although I dont need the range you do I am in about the most noisy (rf) place on the planet.
dephcon5@yahoo.com
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Good product, performs well...
2002-09-12 05:52:00 quarkster [Reply | View]
I recently deployed a couple of these -- one at work in a warehouse-style setting where cabling is not really feasible and one at home where I didn't want to bother running cable. :)
They both work well, connected to a variety of different wireless access points (Linksys, Apple, SMC).
Also, they were brain-dead easy to get up and running...
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Let me know re: house to house hookup
2002-09-12 05:00:31 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Keep up posted on how this works out...
We have no highspeed access in our town, yet there's about the same 1-2 mile same elevation to houses in the next town that have cable modems. I'd love to hook up to a friend's house and finally get some real access.
thanks,
paul
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Works great
2002-09-11 17:27:51 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
I have one one these at my house, primarily to bring Ethernet to the TV cabinet in the living room.
Why the TV cabinet? Well my TIVO gets updates this way, and I can play video games online with the PS2 broadband adapter.
Sometimes I get some work done too.
thank u