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On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:15 +0000, Julian Hall wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm on Virginmedia and recently my modem went belly-up. They've > replaced it, but sadly with one of their 'Super Hubs', which frankly is > anything but Super. Anyway, I kept my old WiFi router - an Edimax > BR-6574N and thought I'd use it as a WiFi Repeater. Simply put, I live > in a dormer bungalow and the main PC and router are in my bedroom on the > ground floor, front right corner. Not great for range. I configured > the Edimax for repeater mode as per the manual and got a friend to put > it in one of the upstairs back bedrooms (I'm in a wheelchair hence the > downstairs bedroom). The point of the exercise is to extend the range > in the back garden which is about 60' (I'm rubbish at distance estimates > :)). > > Now I've bored you with geography, my question is this. The Edimax has > the VM Super Hub as a Wifi client. I've disabled dual channel on the VM > as it was confusing the issue, both now use channel 1. However my main > question is, should I be using the same ESSID for both devices? My gut > instinct was yes, so I am, but I just wanted to clarify. The reason for > asking is the poor performance of the repeater, only a ten feet or so > further than I was getting already. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > No a different ESSid for each I have a 3Com with an Edimax and they work fine together extending my wireless to a good 30 ft through Granite walls. The Edimax has ADSL, gives dhcp to the 3Com which gives DHCP to extended Wireless users I use 192.168.2.1 as default GW on the 3Com ( so the ip of the Edimax is 192.168.2.1 a Subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 so I can give it's wireless clients 192.168.2.whatever in dhcp and 3Coms clients get 192.168.1.whatever with a mask of 255.255.255.0 the two are kept separate as one is the Shop and one is the B&B Channels are both 11 though. Been working for about 3 years with no intervention. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq