Operating Instructions and Installation Instructions

Increasing the Range of the WLAN Connection

WDS: Expanding the WLAN range using a WDS repeater

Note the following for WDS configuration:

• To expand the range of your wireless network, you need

at least one additional WLAN base station. The wireless

network of your FRITZ!Box can be expanded to a WDS

(Wireless Distribution System) with up to three WLAN

base stations.

• All WLAN base stations implemented in the WDS must

support WDS and be configured for this technology.

• All WLAN base stations implemented as repeaters in the

WDS must be located within the radio range of the WDS

base station.

• The FRITZ!Box can function as a WDS base station to es-

tablish the Internet connection for other WDS repeaters,

or as a WDS repeater to expand the range of a WDS base

station.

• All WDS connections between the WDS base station

and the WDS repeaters must be secured using the

same encryption (e.g. WPA/WPA2). Note that the WPA2

encryption method is available only when your network

consists of AVM devices, since in the WLAN standard on-

ly WEP encryption has been specified for WDS connec-

tions.

• All WLAN base stations in the WDS must use the same

radio channel.

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