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WBC502 Airbridge
I have purchased a WBC502 to connect my garage to my home internet where I want to attach a small network switch to connect 4-5 devices. I only have one WBC502 and was thinking setup as an AP. Does anyone know if this will work ? Also when setting up as AP I have gone through the manual but cannot seem to link it to my network, it finds the mac address of the master but cannot go any further. Any ideas and will this work ?
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Do you have an ethernet line ran from your home to the garage?
Or are you just seeing if you can get the WBC to reach the garage?
Because in point to point mode, you'd need 2 of them.
did you look through the manual? page 11 goes over the modes and page 111 goes over how to change/manage it in that mode.
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/wbc502.aspx
No cable currently using Orbi but keeps on dropping so thought this would be a better option. The website states that this can be done, might be in Client Bridge mode though.
Just seems very hard to setup but if your right its not going to work for me, i have attached a screen shot of the website showing a WBC talking to a router
It does have an access point mode but its not going to project any further than orbi does in access point mode.
In bridge mode, its a directional connection thats basically "aimed" at the other bridge to form a connection.
- In the end I ditched the Orbi and bought another wbc502 as would not work and now use as master and slave. I’m not impressed with the system as I cannot connect to the system WiFi but is now working for cabled network in my garage.
- Thanks for the info. Looks like we both were conned by the false advertising...
