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WAG102 as "A" bridge and "G" AP?
Hi, I'm having some trouble setting up two bridges and any suggestions or help would be appreciated. What I'd like to do is use two WAG102's as both AP and bridge. One unit is wired to my router ...
I have successfully gotten two WAG102's bridged via their "a" channels and both offering WiFi via their "g" channels. I was able to get it to work with "a" channel 36 and the 5GHz signal penetration seems better than the 2.4 GHz "g" penetration, although I didn't test that thoroughly. It took me a while to get it all to work, but that's just because I wasn't being meticulous enough.
I could not get the WAG102 units to cooperate with my Verizon Actiontec MI424-WR Rev. F unit’s WAP functionality very well: the throughput was quartered and latency doubled when I tried to set up the WAG102’s with the same SSID and security settings as the Actiontec. So I used a different SSID and once I have everyone transferred to the new SSID, I’ll disable the Verizon unit’s WAP functionality and just use it as a modem + router. I decided to move to a new SSID because A) I wanted to change from WEP to WPA2 (Windows makes it a bit of a pain for non-techies to deal with such a change for a given SSID), and B) I wanted to make it easy to revert to the old setup in the event that the WAG102 units fail.
I could not get the WAG102 units to cooperate with my Verizon Actiontec MI424-WR Rev. F unit’s WAP functionality very well: the throughput was quartered and latency doubled when I tried to set up the WAG102’s with the same SSID and security settings as the Actiontec. So I used a different SSID and once I have everyone transferred to the new SSID, I’ll disable the Verizon unit’s WAP functionality and just use it as a modem + router. I decided to move to a new SSID because A) I wanted to change from WEP to WPA2 (Windows makes it a bit of a pain for non-techies to deal with such a change for a given SSID), and B) I wanted to make it easy to revert to the old setup in the event that the WAG102 units fail.