[davidflas]

My father just gave me his snow ABS and I already have a wireless network setup in my home using a Netgear wireless router. Can I use both of them to expand the network? If so, how? Thanks in advance for your assistence.

[davidflas]

bump.. someone must know....

[ghporter]

The basic idea is that you set both access points with the SAME SSID (network name on the ABS), but put them on different channels. Connect them both to the same router, and they will look like a seamless wireless coverage area that your laptop will roam through. You can put the ABS as far away as your ethernet cables will let you-and you can get a 100' cable if you want to, because the ethernet standard allows for distances of up to 100meters!

The only thing that can mess you up with this is WEP; be very careful to enter the existing network's WEP key in the ABS (probably by starting the entry with a '$' (no quotes, of course)). If everything seems to work except you can't connect with the ABS, it's almost always the WEP key being entered wrong-Apple did their own thing, while the rest of the industry went with a pretty standard method.

[Partisan01]

Originally posted by GHPorter:
The basic idea is that you set both access points with the SAME SSID (network name on the ABS), but put them on different channels. Connect them both to the same router, and they will look like a seamless wireless coverage area that your laptop will roam through. You can put the ABS as far away as your ethernet cables will let you-and you can get a 100' cable if you want to, because the ethernet standard allows for distances of up to 100meters!

The only thing that can mess you up with this is WEP; be very careful to enter the existing network's WEP key in the ABS (probably by starting the entry with a '$' (no quotes, of course)). If everything seems to work except you can't connect with the ABS, it's almost always the WEP key being entered wrong-Apple did their own thing, while the rest of the industry went with a pretty standard method.

Good idea, you could also toss one of the base stations into bridge mode, what this means is that it just receives the packets and sends them along, no routing. Kinda like a repeater.

nate

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Partisan01:
Good idea, you could also toss one of the base stations into bridge mode, what this means is that it just receives the packets and sends them along, no routing. Kinda like a repeater.

nate

That's the second step, after figuring out where to put the Snow base station. You can only have one DHCP server on a network (it gets REALLY weird if you have more than one!) and it should be the established one, not something you add to the network. To set an ABS to bridge, open the Admin Utility, go to the Network tab, and uncheck the box to "share a single IP address." It's that simple.

[davidflas]

Thanks guys! I'll give it a try and report back here