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ProSafe Premium 3 x 3 Dual-Band Wireless-N Access Point WNDAP620

Note: You can extend this multipoint bridging configuration by adding additional wireless access points that are configured in point-to-point mode for each additional LAN segment. Furthermore, you can extend the range of the wireless network with NETGEAR wireless antenna accessories.

Configure the Wireless Access Point to Repeat the Wireless Signal Using Point-to-Multipoint Bridge Mode

You can configure the wireless access point to repeat the wireless signal, without communication with other wireless clients. All traffic is sent to the remote or downstream wireless access point. You can configure up to four security profiles to enable the wireless access point to repeat the wireless signal for four remote wireless access points. Each security profile requires a unique name and needs to include the MAC address of the remote wireless access point. You can configure up to four such security profiles (NETGEAR-WDS-1, NETGEAR-WDS-2, and so on).

The following figure shows an example in which AP1, AP2, and AP3 repeat the wireless signal in point-to-multipoint bridge mode. AP2 requires a security profile for AP1 and another one for AP3:

Multipoint
bridge mode	Multipoint
repeating only
Router	bridge mode
	repeating only

Multipoint bridge mode repeating only

Hub or switch

Figure 73.

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