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-Also make sure that you disable the "AP Watchdog" deamon. If you have a wireless endpoint (like a laptop) which connects to the Airport station (because you use WDS) then the Linksys does not see any Clients connected and restarts the wireless network over and over.+Also make sure that you disable the "AP Watchdog" daemon. If you have a wireless endpoint (like a laptop) which connects to the Airport station (because you use WDS) then the Linksys does not see any Clients connected and restarts the wireless network over and over.
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Contents

This WIKI is not finished. More tutorials and confirmed working products should be added

Introduction

WDS allows a wireless link to be established between many wireless routers to that they can repeat the signal of the main router. This allows the wireless signal of the main router to be expanded over a larger range, in effect.

Current Status for DD-WRT

WDS does not work well currently on DD-WRT prefinal5. Use DD-WRT prefinal4 for the time being (5-13-2005).

That's really true. If you have a working WDS Network, you should NOT upgrade, the upgrade may cause malfunction to your running a WDS Network.

DD-WRT v22 R2 seems to be working well.

Confirmed Working Products

-Apple Airport Express
-Linksys WRE54G Wireless Range Expander
-Belkin F5D7230-4  802.11g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router (so far so good)

Installation

WDS Linking with WRT54Gs

A pretty decent forum post was made about WDS Linking with WRT54Gs.

Find it here: http://forum.bsr-clan.de/ftopic624.html

Original was here: http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=7 (with pictures)

Setting up WDS between a DD-WRT router and an Apple Airport Express

This has been tested with prefinal4 [6-15-05]

1) [Wireless->Basic Settings] Set the channel on the DD-WRT to 1
2a) [Wireless->WDS] Select "LAN" option and enter the airport express's AIRPORT id
2b) Set Lazy WDS and WDS subnet to disable
3) [Administration->Management] Set Loopback to disable
4) [Security->Firewall] Turn off "Block Anonymous Internet Requests"
5) Open Airport admin utility and find the new express, then double click it
6) In the airport tab:
   Select "Create Wireless Network"
   Set Network name to your wireless SSID
   Set the wireless channel to 1
7) WDS tab:
   Enable this base statio
   Set base station as "remote base station"
   In the Main Aiport ID section enter your DD-WRT wireless mac (can get this in status->wireless)
8) Click "update"

if it works then there will be a solid green light (may take a couple of minutes)

source: http://ryanschwartz.net/2004/08/05/airtunes-airport-express-and-the-wrt54g


Also make sure that you disable the "AP Watchdog" daemon. If you have a wireless endpoint (like a laptop) which connects to the Airport station (because you use WDS) then the Linksys does not see any Clients connected and restarts the wireless network over and over.


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