Re: Two access points in same house

Well, that worked sort of. By turning everything off, including
encryption I was able to give both devices the same ssid and stay on
the net. Problem was, when I moved downstairs toward the routher, the
laptop would not switch over to the router. I even sat directly under
the router's antenna, but the laptop would not switch.

On Tue, 23 May 2006 18:46:43 -0400, The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson
<Thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 22 May 2006 22:18:43 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson <Thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

No, they had different ip addresses.

So much for the easy theories.

Watching the wireless client in
the tray it looked like it kept connecting to the router's access
point and then the access point's access point in a cycle. It will not
stay connected to either one long enough to do anything.

I think that I've seen it do that when I have two access points, with
the same SSID, but different WEP or WPA keys. I don't recall the
exact combination. The client tries to connect to one AP, fails,
rescanss, tries the other, fails, rescans, and repeats endlessly. Try
it with WEP or WPA temporarily disabled.

I'll try it, but I have to wait until my daughter is not home. She
uses the AP upstairs with her laptop. Right now, I'm using wpa-psk
w/tkip, but I'll disable it on both the router and the AP temporarily.

1. I change them both to the same SSID
2. I change the AP to use channel 1 and leave the router on channel 6.

Well, the DWL-2100ap had a problem on channel 6. Try it on a
different channel. At this point, it doesn't matter which channel.
Just not on channel 6.

I'll put the AP on 1 and the router on 10.

On a side note, I tried to turn off all of the special Dlink turbo
options too. Didn't help.

Leave them off, especially the 108Mbits/sec turbot mode. My intuition
tells me it's somehow involved, but don't know exactly how.

I'm not afraid of no stinkin horses or networks. Believe me, I have
tried it repeatedly. I don't think the DLINK products like to devices
with the same SSID in range of each other.

Well, you might be right but I still think there's some testing left
to be done. How about reducing all the wireless settings to their
absolute simplest basic setup. No encryption, 802.11g only, no
performance enhancement. Same SSID, different channels (but not 6).

Will do. Thanks for the help.

The important thing is the it should work the way you're using it and
should not barf when the SSID's are the same.

They'll hang up on you at DLINK. From what I can tell, it is such
total chaos there that you would probably never find a supervisor to
report them to.

Sure there is. You report the problem to DLink sales and/or
marketeering. They pay attention to irate customers who fail to get
proper support. Try posting the story (and the problem) here:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/dlink

That's an idea. I work in support, but Sales doesn't have much clout
in my department. We try to help them to sell of course, but we know
the best way to help them is to keep the customers thrilled with the
service we give. If I hung up on a customer, I would be putting my
personal stuff in a box 'cause I'd be fired very quickly.

There are some Dlink employees with a clue that lurk and sometime
participate.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,6339934

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

This last time I called it was to
request a beta driver for a known issue with the dlink wireless
drivers and network magic (It will cause a blue screen in windows,
I've reproduced it on three different computers with 3 different dlink
wireless devices.)

| http://www.networkmagic.com
It comes with some Dlink routers as a free trial. I've played with
and found it "interesting" but not very useful if you know what you're
doing. I note that the DWL-2100 is not on the NetworkMagic supported
list (because it's not a router), but DI-624 rev C is supported.
| http://www.networkmagic.com/product/supported/features.php?featureid=5

This is kinda weird:
| http://support.networkmagic.com/cgi-bin/pure.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=120&p_created=1146040754&p_sid=KtEKqb8i&p_accessibility=0&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0xMSZwX3Byb2RzPTEmcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PTEuMSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Ymx1ZSBzY3JlZW4*&p_li=&p_topview=1
.

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