Hi,

I currently have 2 minitar AP's in Infrastructure-Station mode connecting to a Draytek 2600WE ADSL modem / Access Point. The draytek has a number of wired PC's plugged in to it. Connecting to both minitar's is a single PC each and everything works fine. However, I now want to add a second PC to one of the access points. The trouble is, this means switching one of the Minitar AP's to AP mode but the Draytek only works in AP mode itself and will therefore only communicate with wireless clients and not a minitar in AP mode. I did plug 2 PC's in to a switch along with the minitar in Infrastructure-Station mode and it kind of worked, although I couldn't ping the 2 pc's until they had pinged the wired network first.

As I see it - I can either buy another minitar AP or pci card for the new PC (or turn the wireless off on the Draytek and use the new AP to replace it's wireless functionality). Alternatively I could buy 2 of the Minitar residental gateways and have 802.11g speeds between the 2. In doing this - I assume I'd have to put one in point to multi-point, the other in point to point and the other 802.11b minitar AP in point to point. Is this right and will it work? Will I get 802.11g between the 2 MN54G4R's and 802.11b between the other minitar, or will it all slow down to 802.11b? If it does slow down to 802.11b, is this only when the 802.11b node is active, or does it's mere presence slow everything to b speeds?

Or can anyone think of a way to get my existing minitar's to work around the Drayteks limitations?

Afraid not.

The "can ping one way but not until the other" is a classic problem of trying to place two machines behind a station configuration - you are right that it is not meant to work like that.

If the Draytek can't support any bridge modes then the easiest solution is a 3rd MNWAPB hooked into the Draytek and configure all AP's in bridging modes.

If you want to use Residential Gateway's then the gateway's only work in WDS mode which will be fine for your setup. You can put the MNWAPB into bridge point-to-point and the two gateway's into WDS mode, configure all the correct MAC addresses and you should get 54mbit speeds between the G nodes and 11mbit back to your MNWAPB.

S.

Serialmonkey,

Thankyou very much for your help. I have purchased the 2 new Residential Gateways and set them up as per your instructions and it works perfectly.

Glad to hear it's all good mate, let us know if there is anything else we can help with

S.