can an access point connect through an access point?

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 29 Jan 2006 07:54, Claude Jones wrote:
>
> Topology is: Wireless broadband comes into my house through radio;
> radio has a LAN port which connects to my WAN nic; my LAN nic is
> connected to a D-Link G700AP - various PC's throughout my house
> connect via WIFI to this AP, and all works well.
>
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> I've set the SSID on the secondary AP to the same value as the one on
> my primary access point.
> I've assigned it a unique address in the same subnet as the first AP.
> I've set my primary AP address as the gateway for the secondary one.
>
> >From my machine connected to the secondary AP by cat5 cable, I can
> > ping that
>
> AP, so the connection there is fine. But, I can't ping the primary
> AP. Channels are the same, encryption is turned off on both. Am I
> engaged in a fallacy of composition, or can this be done?
>
I recently extended my lan by adding a router/AP, and my setup sounds 
very similar to yours.  The point at which there may be a difference, 
is that I used a cat5 connection to the router, using one of the lan 
points.  The router then acts as a switch, rather than a router.  I can 
use either cabled or wireless access from the router, and access the 
original router (also cabled + wireless) from any box or laptop.

It was the point of not using the external connection on the second AP 
that was the clincher for getting it to work for me.  I'm told that 
there are other, possibly better, methods involving bridging, but this 
is simple, and works.  (BTW, both my routers are D-Link)   HTH

Anne