Fellow Experts,
I have a D-Link DWL-800AP+ wireless access point/range extender that I used to use as a range extender, and now I would like to do so again, but I have lost the documentation. I tried to find a user guide at the D-Link company site, but I cannot find anything there (product is discontinued).
I would appreciate any guidance you all can provide.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick
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Here's the emulator for your prodct:
http://www.voiproblem.com/
As far as I see you meet to logon your product:
Click Wireless > Repeater > Enter Your Main AP's MAC Address
Enter our WEP settings and click Apply. This is it.
Cheers,
K.
KeremE,
Thank you for that. I tried setting a static IP of 192.168.0.30 per the instructions, but it did not work.
I went into Local Area Connections on my network connections, and then opened the properties on
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
I assigned the static IP address there, but then I could not get any network connections. Do I have
to reboot?
Patrick
Sorry but I'm lost there.
As far as I understand what you need was to reconfigure your DWL800P to act like a Wireless repeater. I've understaood that it is currently working as an AP.
If this is the case. You need the main AP and DWL800.
Then you'l go to management screen and you'll change the operating mode from AP to Repeater.
When you do the change the AP name filed would disappera tant the ne field will be "th "Remote AP MAX"
So what you will enter there is the MAC address of your other AP not the IP of the AP. The MAC address is in the format of: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (6 Hex digits) this is the Physical address of your AP ethernet.
> I tried setting a static IP of 192.168.0.30 per the instructions, but it did not work.
Set a static IP of 192.168.0.10 and surf to http://192.168.0.30 while connected directly to the LAN port of the DWL-800AP+.
In the logon box, enter the username admin, leave the password blank, and click OK.
Once you're in, you can run the setup wizard, which will step you through setting a password, changing the mode from the default AP to Repeater (enter the main router's MAC address there too), then choosing the encryption (if any... it only supports WEP, which can be broken in about 5 minutes by freely available software).
KeremE and Darr247,
Thank you for your replies. I found some pages by googling that mentioned the static IP bit that Darr247
described, and I was eventually able to get to the setup wizard.
I am not sure I did it correctly, though, as I did not see an improvement in signal strength. Without the
repeater, my location was consistently getting Very Low or Low signal strength, and after setup it did
not seem to improve.
This page here suggests that the main MAC address of the router/access point is not the right one:
http://www.gearbits.com/ar
I've tried the main MAC and the Ethernet MAC, but neither seems to be making a difference.
Service provider is Verizon FiOS, with combo modem/WAP made by Actiontec (model MI424-WR).
Would I be better off just buying a newer range extender?
Patrick
Forgot to add: there are several different MAC addresses for the modem/router/WAP displayed in the
admin set-up: Network (Home/Office), Broadband Connection (Ethernet), Ethernet, Broadband Connection (Coax),
Coax, Wireless Access Point.
And to make it even more confusing, a different (but similar) MAC ID is printed on the device itself :)
> This page here suggests that the main MAC address of the router/access point is not the right one
I didn't see anything in that thread about entering the MAC address of anything. All I saw was a discussion of not being able to get the WEP to work (most likely they were using a different WEP key in the 800AP+ than the main router/AP used).
Also, maybe you misinterpreted what I said previously... I said "enter the main router's MAC address there" - i.e. enter the MAC address of the main router/AP, not the other router's main MAC. How are you entering it, by the way?
It doesn't show what format to enter it in the Quick Install Guide, which you can download directly from D-Link - ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Wirele
Anyway, the first MAC address I would enter in the DWL-800AP+ is the one printed on the bottom of the Actiontec; next I would try its wireless MAC address. Also, enter the same SSID (they're case-sensitive too) that the Actiontec is using, if it will let you enter one while Repeater is selected as the mode. Newer models have a Site Survey function where you can see what's available and select the one you want from a list (much like XP's View Available Wireless Networks screen), but the 800AP+ is old. You do realize it's 802.11b-only, right? So you can't have the Actiontec set to 802.11g-only mode, either... it needs to be using mixed mode to be repeated by that D-Link.
Darr247 said:
>>the 800AP+ is old. You do realize it's 802.11b-only, right?
Er, um, yeah, I guess I should have realized that :) I happened to have it because the access point I
used to have before I signed up for FiOS was 802.11b, and I was able to pick it up on eBay for cheap
a few years ago. Methinks it may be time to catch up.
KeremE and Darr247, thank you for your assistance. I may leave this open till Monday or so as I
experiment with settings.
Cheers,
Patrick
> Methinks it may be time to catch up.
Well, 802.11b's maximum throughput (~5.5Mbps before being cut in half from Repeater mode) is plenty fast for surfing the internet. Even just 1Mbps will stream most video available online without hiccups. You might notice it more when sharing files between local computers, though. I was just pointing out that it would not be able to talk to it at all if the Actiontec was possibly set to G-only mode.
Still, what you want to do should not be this difficult.
Once you get into the DWL-800AP+'s config menus, forget the wizard... go to the Network tab and change the IP of the D-Link to, say, 192.168.1.30 - the same network as the Actiontec (which is subnet 192.168.1.0 by default; if you changed it to something else, change the DLink to match its network)... as soon as you Apply/Save those settings, your computer won't be able to talk to the DLink again until you change the static IP of your network adapter from the 192.168.0.0 subnet to the 192.168.1.0 network... changing the network of the DLink might be all you need to do at this point - to see if it's actually talking to the MI424-WR, go into the Actiontec's setup screens and on the My Computer 'tab' of the Main section, see if the DLink is appearing there yet. If not, then try changing the MAC address entered in the DLink until you find the right one to use and the DLink shows up in the Actiontec's config menus.
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by: KeremEPosted on 2009-08-27 at 09:17:15ID: 25199927
Hi,
You can find the documentation here:
Quick Install Guide:
http://wireless.cisbg.com/