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WDS configuration for WAC510
Greetings,
I have read the latest user manual for the WAC510.
I have read the various "How To" links in the kb
I have upgraded my three WAC510's to the latest firmware: V9.5.4.2
I have all three units in AP mode.
I have one of the units connected to the LAN via a ethernet cable.
The other two units are direct power only. The locations that they will be have no easy PoE access.
I have successfully configured the "Base Station" unit to bridge with one of the "Repeater" units. Works great and really helps with the desired WiFi coverage.
I get the attached error message when I attempt to configure the second "Repeater" unit. Dialog box with "This radio already has a WDS client configured. More than one WDS client not supported on same radio. OK"
It was my understanding that I could configure up to four "Repeater" units. Currently only one "Repeater" unit has come online.
I know I am missing something really obvious here, but it escapes me. The fact that the "Base Station" unit is in fact talking to the "Repeater" unit and I can indeed see on my iPhone the increased WiFi coverage due to both of these units working on the published SSID tells me that the configurations are not all wrong.
Help get me past this error and enable me to configure the second repeater and hopefully the ability to get two more repeaters in case I need them.
Thank you,
Christopher
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As a side note, yes I have WPA2 Personal set for Authentication with a good password...
But everytime you toggle the enable / disable the Authentication goes back to Open and if you then tell it to go back to WPA2 Personal it defaults the password to "sharedsecret" which I find both annoying and a potential security issue.
see attached updated screen shot showing my "enable" attempt with WPA2 with known good password.
CTGriffin wrote:
I have successfully configured the "Base Station" unit to bridge with one of the "Repeater" units. Works great and really helps with the desired WiFi coverage.
It was my understanding that I could configure up to four "Repeater" units. Currently only one "Repeater" unit has come online
Hi Christoper
Yes, you can configure four WDS Clients to form a WDS system with up to five APs.. However all four need to be linked direct to the WDS Base Station.
CTGriffin wrote:
I get the attached error message when I attempt to configure the second "Repeater" unit. Dialog box with "This radio already has a WDS client configured. More than one WDS client not supported on same radio. OK"
Based on the "This radio already has a WDS client configured. More than one WDS client not supported on same radio. OK" I suspect you try to from some kind of daisy chain config, what is not possible.
Should this message be shown on the WDS Base Station while attempting to configure the second WDS Client, it looks a bug.
Regards,
-Kurt
I get this message on the Base Station while attempting to configure the bridge to the second client.
I am able to successfully connect a bridge between the Base Station and the first client.
I am not trying to form a daisy chain topology.
I want the Base Station to connect to four clients in a point to multi-point topology as spoken of in documentation.
RaghuHR - looks like some Web UI checks go wrong while adding a second (or more) WPA Base Station. The WPA system does support up to for WPA repeaters/clients, without a requirement to reside on different radious (what will be difficult, condidering these and many siilar WAC or WAX don't have four radios.
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