Wireless Networking with D-Link »
As mentioned, I've recently been tweaking the network, and today I was finally able to make it all work again. our wireless had been a bit spotty since making the changes. It turns out that the big problem is that D-Link devices don't like talking to non-D-Link devices (or vice versa) at anything over 11 Mbps. Once I set the access point (DI-614+) to a max of 11 Mbps, and the repeater (DWL-800AP+) to connect to the access point, the whole house is wired again. Er, unwired. You know what I mean.
One other quirk was that the repeater requires a MAC address to connect to when it's trying to establish itself on the network. My gut would say that this is the wireless MAC address of the router. My gut was wrong. It was the Ethernet MAC address (which is incidentally listed in the quickstart guide). After setting that correctly, it all just worked.
And for another default IP address - the DWL-800AP+ has a default IP address of 192.168.0.30. Wacky, but it's easily changed.
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D-Link 802.11g Products don't even like talking to D-Link 802.11b products, let alone over company's product.
Posted by The Unknown Soldier | May 11, 2005 10:01 PM