Do Linksys Routers Support WDS (WRT54AG)?

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Do Linksys Routers Support WDS (WRT54AG)?

I have a linksys WRT54AG (both a wireless G and A router).

Is there a way to set it up so that my airport express will act as a range extender for my exsisting wireless network?

I troubleshoot wifi problems as a job, so I am pretty savvy, but I am stumped here, been working on it for 4 hours or so.

Any help or reference to a good website would be great appreciated!

- Matt

2.0 Dual Core G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 31, 2006 8:46 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 1, 2006 3:26 AM in response to Matt-a-tat-tat

Matt,

Not acording to the manual or the readme's with the upgrades for the router.

But you may be able to trick it into communicating with the rest of the wireless network, well one wireless router in particular, and use it to forward all the network traffic to it. You'd need some trickery with the IP addresses it assigned, to make sure they were still on the same subnet.

Or the easy way is to wire it by Ethernet to the rest of the network, works for me. This creates a Wireless Roaming network, one step short of WDS.

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Answer 2

Rj in WI

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Apr 1, 2006 9:22 AM in response to Matt-a-tat-tat

Hi Matt:

To my knowledge (I use to have the WRT54AG router) you can't trick it. The only one that I'm aware that you can is the WRT54G (With a hack)

Sorry!

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