Owner's Manual

86 | Chapter 7. Advanced Settings
N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4000 User Manual
• Disable Wireless Client Association. If your wireless router is the base station,
selecting this check box means that wireless clients cannot associate with it. Only LAN
client associations are allowed.
• Repe
ater MAC Address (1 through 4). If your wireless router is the base station, it can
act as the “parent” of up to 4 other access points. Enter the MAC addresses of the other
access points in these fields.
Set Up a Repeater with Wireless Client Association
In the repeater mode with wireless client association, your wireless router sends all traffic to a
base station access point. You can set up the wireless router as either the base station
(parent) or as the repeater (child) access point.
Note that the following restrictions apply:
• Y
ou do not have the option of disabling client associations with this wireless router.
• Y
ou cannot configure a sequence of parent-child APs. You are limited to only one parent
access point, although if your wireless router is the parent access point, it can connect
with up to four child access points.
The following figure shows a
n example of a repeater mode configuration.
Figure 2. Repeater example
To set up a repeater with wireless client association:
In this example, the wireless router is the base station, but you can set it up to be the repeater
with a
nother AP as the base station if you want.
1. Set up your wireless router to
be the base station.
a. In the
Wireless Repeating Function screen for your wireless router, select the Enable
Wireless Repeating Function check box.
b. Select the W
ireless Base Station radio button.