User's Manual Part 1

User’s Guide Chapter 7 – Reference Manual
Network Interface | Wireless | WDS
A WDS (Wireless Distribution System) allows you to create a wireless network infrastructure.
Normally, the access points must be connected with a wire (LAN), which is generally an Ethernet
connection in business applications. Once connected, these access points create wireless cells
allowing a wireless connection. The WDS feature allows the access points to be wirelessly connected
to another access point, eliminating the need to the wired connection between them:
WDS Link
Wired LAN
P-560
Wired LAN
P-560
Figure 93 – WDS Link
The WDS mode is configured by entering the WDS link peer access points (AP e.g. P-560) MAC
address in each other’s AP configuration e.g. Web interface. As a result APs that relay data received
from a wireless station to another access points (and vice versa) have to receive and send each
packet over the same channel. Hence the overall throughput will be reduced for each relay link.
The radio channel in all WDS link peer APs must be the same.
To configure the WDS links use the network interface | wireless | WDS menu, click the edit button
and enter the peer access point MAC addresses:
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