Owner's Manual

Advanced Settings

N600 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit VDSL2 Modem Router DGND3800B

Wireless Distribution System (WDS)

You can set up the modem router to be used as a wireless access point (AP). Doing this

enables the modem router to act as a wireless repeater. A wireless repeater connects to

another wireless modem router as a client where the network to which it connects becomes

the ISP service.

Wireless repeating is a type of wireless distribution system (WDS). A WDS allows a wireless

network to be expanded through multiple access points instead of using a wired backbone to

link them. The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.

Figure 13. Wireless repeating scenario

Note: To use the wireless repeating function, you need to select None as

the security option in the Wireless Setup screen, and you cannot

select Auto Channel. For more information, see

Basic Wireless

Setup on page 30.

Wireless base station. The modem router acts as the parent access point, that bridges

traffic to and from the child repeater access point. The base station also handles wireless and

wired local computers. To configure this mode, you have to know the MAC address of the

child repeater access point. Often, the MAC address is on the product label.

Wireless repeater. The modem router sends all traffic from its local wireless or wired

computers to a remote access point. To configure this mode, you have to know the MAC

address of the remote parent access point.

Repeater

Base station

access point