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Novice

Jan 12, 2012

Please help me with my access point setup :(

Hi I have a BT Business broadband router 2wire i think its called. I also have a netgear WG102 access point, i want to connect the two so i can pick up wireless internet from the access point. This...

gearhead123

Novice

Jan 13, 2012

bob5244 wrote:
Ok I understand now what you're trying to do. Yes if you want the AP to be a repeater you will need the wireless security types to be the same with the same SSID and password

bob5244 wrote:
Ok I understand now what you're trying to do. Yes if you want the AP to be a repeater you will need the wireless security types to be the same with the same SSID and password

I already tried changing the SSID on the AP to the same as the 2wire, all this seemed to do was change the name in my available wireless networks list so i had two BT Business Hubs listed, instead of one BT hub and one NetGear AP??