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Point to Point bridge problems
im having issues with point to point bridging a wndap350 and wndap360. background: we have a very long house, with lots of stuff apparently blocking wifi. ive been using a wndap350 for access o...
You can bridge &/or repeat with two units - it's about what you're trying to achieve rather than how many units you have.
Imagine two road networks one on the left bank of a river and the other on the right bank of the river, and you wish to allow road traffic to flow as if it were one network - you can achieve this by building a bridge across the river.
In the same way, you can have two physically separated data networks - for the sake of discussion in two different buildings - and link them so that data flows by using a wireless bridge between the networks.
If you have two networks with a single bridge, that will be a point-to-point bridge - if you have three networks, you can either use two point-to-point bridges, or you can go point-to-multipoint, and so on and so forth.
Repeating is where the second access point receives the signal from the first access point and rebroadcasts it - you can have as many repeaters as you wish, within reason - each repeater hop causes a 50% drop in throughput.
It's important to understand what you're trying to do, because that will determine how you configure your access points - and unless I'm mistaken you're trying to repeat whilst configuring for bridging.
Imagine two road networks one on the left bank of a river and the other on the right bank of the river, and you wish to allow road traffic to flow as if it were one network - you can achieve this by building a bridge across the river.
In the same way, you can have two physically separated data networks - for the sake of discussion in two different buildings - and link them so that data flows by using a wireless bridge between the networks.
If you have two networks with a single bridge, that will be a point-to-point bridge - if you have three networks, you can either use two point-to-point bridges, or you can go point-to-multipoint, and so on and so forth.
Repeating is where the second access point receives the signal from the first access point and rebroadcasts it - you can have as many repeaters as you wish, within reason - each repeater hop causes a 50% drop in throughput.
It's important to understand what you're trying to do, because that will determine how you configure your access points - and unless I'm mistaken you're trying to repeat whilst configuring for bridging.