I am trying to setup two repeaters in our RV park with the MT as the base. The repeaters are the D-Link DWL 800+. These are just for test before investing, they are WDS. Currently I have them positioned and turned on. They support connections and relay back to the MT and seem to work OK, but I have WDS set at disabled on the MT. I do not know what to do to set up the WDS. If I activate WDS in static or dynamic I loose connection from the repeaters to the MT router. I know there is more to setting up the WDS, but could not find much in the forum and the manual.

Can anyone walk me through the WDS setup on the MT and is it an advantage to run WDS verses what I have now?

Mickoe

If you're simply routing traffic from the D-Link's to the MT, then yes, WDS would give you a bit higher performance. Is the RV Park generating the kinds of loads where you think you need to squeeze every drop of performance out of the MT?

If the D-Link's do WDS, then you'll need to read up on how to configure the WDS on them, I suspect it's just turning it on and giving it the MAC address of the MT wireless interface. On the MT side, turn on static WDS in the wireless interface and then create two new WDS interfaces, and give each of them the MAC address of one of the D-Links. You'll probably need to create a bridge and put the wireless interface, each of the WDS interfaces and the ethernet interface into it also, That will create one large flat network that extends from the MT's ethernet interfaces out to the D-Links, so the RV customers will in effect have an IP address off your ethernet backbone.

Thanks for the explanation. We are not overloaded at this time, I just wanted to run the system the most efficient. I assumed WDS was the best way since it is offered in the MT. The D-Links are programmed with the MT MAC and then they run, no other real setting to deal with on them. I am going to try to impliment your instructions, hope you can help if I have further questions.

Thanks
Mickoe

I can try. I've setup WDS between pairs of MT's for some of backhauls.

My understand of WDS was it immediately cut every WDS link's throughput in half. Using 802.11b, and given its half duplex, that wouldnt be much more than 3Mbps.

Am I missing something?

With or without WDS, 802.11b's throughput isn't going to be much more than 3Mbps, that I've ever seen on any of our customer links. If you're trying to bridge traffic between a couple of radios though, WDS is more efficient on an MT than anything else I've tried and MT recommends WDS itself.