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>> Should I need only one wireless card in my router to connect to both |
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>> the clients and a wireless bridge which is connected to the WAN? |
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> I think you need 2 cards in your router (one as host and one as client |
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> to the wireless WAN bridge), unless you use WDS. |
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Got it, thanks Paul. That's good news because it means I can use any |
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802.11n PCIe 300Mbps card with Linux drivers instead of worrying about |
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AP mode. I'll just use a 802.11g card in AP mode until there is |
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better support for 802.11n. The router uses most of the bandwidth |
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from the WAN. |
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- Grant |
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> WDS allows your access points to become repeaters while still |
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> functioning as access points, so you can have multiple APs and only |
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> one of them needs to be connected to the wired network (as long as |
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> each AP is within range of at least one other AP). |
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> The cost of WDS this is that your available bandwidth is basically |
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> halved (and if you have to support 802.11b, it gets even slower). |
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> Depending on your expected usage, that might or might not be a big |
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> deal. |
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