Talk:WDS Linked router network

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This page should be editied to include the tutorial rather than just a link to it. I've seen much better tutorials (but not on this topic). Perhaps someone can do a re-write moddled after the Client Mode Wireless tutorial. This page should start by explaining what WDS is, the difference between Consumer Wireless Routers and Consumer Wireless Access Points, and how the WRT54G with DD-WRT kicks so much ass because it can combine both a Router AND an Access Point with the WDS feature. It should finish with the tutorial explaining how to setup WDS Links along with trouble shooting and specific firmware version issues.

I agree. I've rewritten the article. Please review it. I don't use WDS, except for having set it up once and taken it down. I also don't have any Airport products. If no comments come for 3 days I will rotate the new version in. --Duozmo 02:04, 30 Jan 2006 (CET)

Ok, I installed my revision. --Duozmo 10:17, 2 Feb 2006 (CET)

On the forum recently http://forum.bsr-clan.de/viewtopic.php?p=45022#45022, Brainslayer says that WDS only works with 802.11g clients. I'll try to put this in this Wiki soon. --Jgoldberg 23:00, 6 May 2006 (CEST)

Page says that WDS requires that you use channels 1,6 or 11. This does not seem accurate to me. I know these channels are non-overlapping but isn't that a question of spectrum usage design and not a "make or break" setting for WDS to work on DD-WRT. Can anyone confirm? --Newmind 03:00, 10 Oct 2006 (CEST)

Don't know where you read it on this page (I did find it too) but somewhere it is accompanied by a link that takes you to a forum post where the user found that he had bad problems when not using 1, 6, or 11. I haven't messed with WDS mesh networks enough my ownself to confirm it as true or false. -HK