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Can access AP from wireless client but no Net?

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imported_GLO

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I have an Asus WL500g wireless router and a Dlink DWL-2100AP which can run in several modes including wireless client, WDS, WDS+AP, and Repeater mode.

Ultimately i want to set the 2100AP up as a Repeater but have not had any success at all.

In an effort to determine if the problem is hardware. software or distance related i am performing a number of tests to figure out where the problem is.

1. using a notebook with Intel wifi card, i can comfortably access the AP (at front of house) and surf the net upto 20m through 1 brick wall and a few internal walls. This extends all the way to the back Colorbond fence.

2. I have set up the the DWL2100AP in the back room, up high and hard up against a brick wall. The 2100AP is supposed to repeat the signal to the neighbors PC only 7m away, also hard up against a brick wall. The neighbours PC can see the 2100APbut it wont pass any internet.

3. I connected my notebook to the 2100AP via cat5 and set it to Wireless Client mode so that the 2100AP becomes the wireless adaptor for the notebook. I can access the router 192.168.0.1 but cant access the net.

I suspect that its a setting in the 2100AP but i cant put my finger on it.

Any help please? I have used Netstumbler to confirm signal strength also.


 
When you are using repeater mode, you must enter the MAC of gateway to repeat on AP. See if your neighbour can ping the gateway. If it pings, ping the URL then ISP DNS. You should enable all the traffic, especially 80 & 21 for you to browse or surf. Also trace if you do not have full privileges.
 
Hi marulee.

thanks for your response.

The repeater does have the Mac Address of the AP selected and sometimes the pings to the AP work and most of the time they fail.

when a site survey is done on the neighbors PC the strongest signal is the repeater, and occassionally a very weak signal from the AP.

As a temporary measure, my cable modem also is a wireless AP and i have enabled that as a back up AP for my neighbor. The signal is marginally stronger/consistant than the Asus AP i prefer to use. These Cable modem and Asus Wifi router are side by side and operate on Ch1 and Ch11 respectively.

I will add that ports 80 and 21 are open and other PCs work fine when connected directly to any of the 2 APs. Its only the repeater im stuck on.

I will try your suggestion again when i get home tonight.
 
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