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by williamoshea

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Dear Colleagues,
I am trying to set up a wireless network to extend an existing LAN. I am using D-Link Access points and D-Link PCI/ PCMCIA wireless NIC. I have 2 issues:
1. When I setup just one Access Point, everything connects perfectly well. Then I decide to enable encryption and use hex with shared authentication. Then only one client is able to contact the access point. All the other clients just freeze and the mouse goes funny. I have entered the encryption key correctly on all clients.
2. second issue is: If I want to set up the other access points (4 in total) as repeaters for the existing access point, will the 4 access points need to be patched into the LAN or is it simply a matter of setting them up as repeaters and pointing them to the MAC address of their ?master? AP. Would appreciate if someone could give me a step by step advice on how to accomplish this as the help files that came with the products are not detailed enough.
Thanks

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by lmon

1) Make sure the adapters all set up for HEX passwords and not ASCII. Second attempt making the connection at first without the wep and make sure everyone gets on. Then configure the wep and check them one by one it might just be that your attempting to use HEX and by default they are set to ASCII.

2)AP Repeater
This selection allows the DWL-2100AP to be a repeater which extend the range of radio coverage a specific AP. Enter the Ethernet MAC address of the remote AP within your network that will have its range extended. All you have to do is go to the main router or access point and get the mac address which should be on the bottom somewhere. Enter that info on one of the lines. And repeat for the rest.

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