Netgear Bridging?

[Bushcat]

Hay guys

I bought a Netgear ADSL Wifi Router and a Netgear Access Point to improve signal quality in a building.

The sales rep and a technician assured me that the two can be bridged via point-to-point. I can't get this to work.

Looked around in the Netgear knowledge base and it says you can not configure bridging between a netgear router and a netgear access point (See the last diagram on this (http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/960/kw/bridging/r_id/100109) page).

I phoned the tech department again and they assured me that these devices have updated firmware and were able to be bridged.

Am I just doing something wrong or should I replace the AP with an actual bridging device?

Any ideas will be really appreciated

Thanks

[NickCat11]

If the tech department assured you that it could be done, did they at least explain to you how to get it setup? Aside from what the tech told you, did you verify yourself that you are running the latest firmware on each of the devices?

[Bushcat]

Hay Nick,

Did everything exactly as they said.

Enable WDS on the router, select Point-to-point bridging, insert master MAC address of the Access Point. On the Access Point did the exact same, enabled WDS, Point-to-point bridging with the Routers master MAC address.

Tried with all security turned off, with WEP, WPA and WPA2.

The firmware is version 4 on both devices, which I understand is the latest.

I'm starting to think the tech department is wrong and that my Access Point can't be bridged to a DSL router even though all the options are there.

[NickCat11]

I'm starting to think the tech department is wrong

I think you're right. You've tried all the correct steps at least from what I can see. It definitely looks like it's a no go.

[Cue]

In my book WDS and PtP are a diffrent choice.

Did you try to disable PtP and just use WDS?

[trapped]

If you have the option to set it up it "should" work. Maybe think about picking up an old Linksys WRT54G. I moved my office to a location where I didn't have a network jack so instead of running cable I setup a WRT54GS running Tomato to connect back a newer WRT320N and it works great. I didn't have to configure anything on the WRT320N so I would think it should work with any make/model router/wap on the other end. Basically it just connects like any client would. I run multiple PCs over the link and still get great performance.