Quick question: What is "WDS"?
What does it mean? I keep seeing the term but not sure what it is. Thanks.
C2D MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
WDS stands for "Wireless Distribution Service" and is a technology used by some wireless routers to connect routers together in a network wirelessly.
If your router does not support WDS then it cannot connect wirelessly to another router, even if it itself is a wireless router.
i.e. a Netgear DG834G is a wireless router/modem and can wirelessly connect with wireless clients such as laptops and desktop computers that have a wireless adapter. It cannot however connect wirelessly to an Airport Extreme N wirelessly as the Netgear doesn't support WDS, the only way to connect the routers is with a physical ethernet cable running between the two, not always possible or desirable in the home!
Hope that helps, Grumpy.
If your router does not support WDS then it cannot connect wirelessly to another router, even if it itself is a wireless router.
i.e. a Netgear DG834G is a wireless router/modem and can wirelessly connect with wireless clients such as laptops and desktop computers that have a wireless adapter. It cannot however connect wirelessly to an Airport Extreme N wirelessly as the Netgear doesn't support WDS, the only way to connect the routers is with a physical ethernet cable running between the two, not always possible or desirable in the home!
Hope that helps, Grumpy.
