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DG834PN how to use as wireless extender
I've searched this forum and the entire internet for a simple jargon-free list of instructions to use my spare and brand new DG834PN as a wireless range extender. Rather than buy a new box I would pre...
Hi Jim, Thanks for the reply. I've seen that same post with link from you dozens of times on this site, and the same pdf on goodness knows how many sites but there is terminology in there I don't understand and steps I don't know how to carry out.
In my case, my master router is a British Telecom one, no doubt it's a product with a BT badge but has BT firmware. So having logged onto the master (I think I can find out how to do that) the instructions on the pdf don't necessarily apply - the two extra WiFi channels prossibly need to be considered?
Also, I see that you have to enter the MAC addresses of the portable devices. If the MACs of all users have to be in the master then the system is useless when friends come to stay unless I take their phones/tablets/laptops and enter their MACSs into the master. Not something I'd ever get round to doing. I need to be able to tell visitors the name of the access point and the password key and let them setup their own devices without having to log into the master router and modify that.
Many thanks for your help, much appreciated :)
ps - sorry if any of my terminology is wrong, I don't keep up to date with the jargon
In my case, my master router is a British Telecom one, no doubt it's a product with a BT badge but has BT firmware. So having logged onto the master (I think I can find out how to do that) the instructions on the pdf don't necessarily apply - the two extra WiFi channels prossibly need to be considered?
Also, I see that you have to enter the MAC addresses of the portable devices. If the MACs of all users have to be in the master then the system is useless when friends come to stay unless I take their phones/tablets/laptops and enter their MACSs into the master. Not something I'd ever get round to doing. I need to be able to tell visitors the name of the access point and the password key and let them setup their own devices without having to log into the master router and modify that.
Many thanks for your help, much appreciated :)
ps - sorry if any of my terminology is wrong, I don't keep up to date with the jargon