User's Manual

Specify Network Settings

U.S. Cellular® 4G LTE Router (LG2200D)

Set Up a Wireless Distribution System

The router can act as router a wireless base station or a wireless repeater in a wireless

distribution system (WDS). A WDS expands a wireless network through multiple access

points. A wireless base station connects to the Internet, can have wired and wireless clients,

and sends its wireless signal to an access point that functions as a wireless repeater. A

wireless repeater can also have wired and wireless clients, but connects to the Internet

through the wireless base station. The following figure shows a wireless repeating scenario.

Repeater

Base station

access point

Figure 7. Wireless repeating scenario

Note: To use the wireless repeating function, your router cannot have security

enabled and cannot use the auto channel feature.

You must set up a wireless base station and a wireless repeater:

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ireless base station. The router acts as the parent access point that bridges traffic to

and from the child repeater access point. The base station also handles wireless and

wired local computers. To configure this mode, you must know the MAC addresses of the

child repeater access point. Often, the MAC address is on the product label.

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ireless repeater. The router sends all traffic from its local wireless or wired computers

to a remote access point. To configure this mode, you must know the MAC address of the

remote parent access point.

The router is always in dual-band concurrent mode, unless you turn off one radio. If you

enable the wireless repeater in either radio band, the wireless base station or wireless

repeater cannot be enabled in the other radio band. However

, if you enable the wireless base

station in either radio band and use the other radio band as a wireless router or wireless base

station, dual-band concurrent mode is not affected.