Also only altering the routers SSID for the extenders will help: I would think that, if your extender is intelligent enough, you should be able to assign static IPs to each extender that should help the flow. Basically, the extender has to be smart enough not to try to connect to itself or any of its downlinks (so it needs to have some idea about the topology) for this to work.Īs the wireless infrastructure set up in this way is a pain in the arm to manage - especially when you are changing the PSKs of your wireless networks ( it looks like you are using PSKs, so you must be changing them frequently, right?), you seriously should be looking into vendor-specific WDS systems where you would not need to touch every single device in the right order to get your keys changed without interrupting connectivity for your management data path. Whether or not your extenders would have any issues with setting the extended network's SSID to the value of the uplink's SSID would be implementation-dependent. The address conflicts reported by the host may be arising from either a true address conflict (something is claiming the IP address the host wants to use and responding to ARP who-has requests) or a network loop where the ARP request from the host would be reflected back to it, answered and the answer reflected back as well - which would look like another host is claiming the address, while in fact it would just be a looped back transmission. Obviously, round-trip times would increase for the connected clients as each hop would add to latency. Where this is not possible and if your requirements permit it, you can do a radio-to-radio forwarding by the means of "extenders".Īs each extender creates an own collision domain, you could daisy-chain them indefinitely - pretty much as you could do with wired switches. Under performance and reliability considerations, an access point should be connected upstream by a wired link. The difference to a "classical" access point configuration would be that their upstream link is wireless - similar (but not necessarily identical) to the Universal Repeater Mode.
I though SP1 had basically fixed Vista, but it appears there's still a few little quirks.Extenders typically are nothing but Wireless Access Points - with two radios if they are any good. until you do something like a file transfer. I've tried multiple cards, multiple drivers, and it works just fine. If you put a heavy traffic load, it basically hard-locks the system. Just as a side note, wireless-N sucks on Vista 64. which is likely) and can run straight from the router to my PC. I won't have to use any switches at all (unless I use multiple computers on my desk. Hee hee hee, I have discovered that I can run a cable through the closet that the cable modem is currently in, around underneath the upstairs floor (there's like a 3-foot crawlspace in between), into a heating duct (or beside it if there is room) that goes straight down into the furnace room (unused, there won't be heat in the ducts) where the disconnected ducting is about 8 inches away from the duct that leads straight into the room, about 4 feet away, where my computer sits. Is that going to give me issues and/or should I just stick with the 802.11n? We have three computers on the main floor, so I might need a second switch to hook them all up. Mom doesn't want any more holes drilled, and I don't blame her, so the easiest thing to do to get a wire would be to put a switch in the basement, then run a wire through the heating ducts to the main floor. I have a wireless-N router that I'm going to put in, but I don't have 100% faith in that either.
I'm on wireless right now, and it's slow/laggy as can be. Now, the wife and I have moved back in, but we've taken over half of the main floor instead of upstairs where I used to live when I was younger, and there are no network cables at all on the main floor (house is: basement, main, upstairs). Then, dad put a computer in the basement because it's not so hot down there, so we ran a wire outside the house down into the basement.
We've run wires under the floor, so the upstairs is all networked.
So, the internet comes into my house in the attic of the top floor.
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