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FuhCtious
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Okay, so I've been looking around online to find the best way to do this, but all the walkthroughs are unclear and conflicting. I am at my mom's house and she has UVerse internet and tv, etc. They provided a router, a 2Wire 3800HGV-B, and I am trying to add a Netgear WNR2000v4 as the repeater. The problem I am having is I have never really done this before, and while the Netgear has a pretty user friendly interface to set itself up in repeater mode, I don't know which settings I have to adjust on the 3800HGV to make sure everything is smooth.

I have looked and it seems like they need the same SSID, channel, and security information, but unfortunately I can't get it all worked out. I have tried matching those up, but it also seems like you can't run security on your router when in repeater mode. In that case I guess I can just not broadcast the SSID or broadcast it but add the MAC addresses of everything individually.

Anyway, I was hoping that maybe someone had some experience with this and might be able to help out. I already tried tech support at UVerse and they couldn't help without passing me off to their pay support service, and I wasn't about to do that.

I know the WNR2000 supports this and should work fine, and I have read from people using the 3800HGV as the base station and making it work, too, I'm just not that tech saavy where I can make this work, and I thought I would come here for help if anyone can. THX.

6/30/2013 5:24:47 PM

Novicane
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wireless repeaters essentially cut your bandwidth in half i thought.

6/30/2013 7:57:55 PM

FuhCtious
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got one PM...thanks for the help. and yes, i get they'll cut bandwidth, but the problem is that my uncle is across the street and i am trying to get his laptop on my mom's wireless as well. basically some access is better than none for him.

6/30/2013 8:35:46 PM

smoothcrim
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don't use a repeater, use a point to point bridged link. ubnt rockets imo

6/30/2013 11:50:22 PM

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