E4200 as access point ?

Hi everyone, trying to figure out something with my setup, cant seem to be able to access my e4200 once its bridged, here is my setup, DSL modem to a dlink 655 at far end of house where most action happens, had a dlink 615 which pooched an replaced with e4200 for other side of house mainly for bedroom wifi, an 1 wired comp (sons desktop), was using the dlink 615 as an access point, so wanting to replace that I grabbed a e4200, setup all wifi stuff an most others settings an set it into bridge mode, moved line over from wan to lan port an works pretty good, only issues I have is that I cannot access the e4200 web interface anymore, have to reset an start from scratch if I wanna change some settings, an second issue is wifi speeds seem low in terms of Mbps, right next to e4200 I can only get 65-90mbps on laptop, next to dlink 655 I get 270mbps, any help or suugestions would be great, thanx !

The E4200 is playing nicely with the available bandwidth. Due to that it picks bandwidth 20 Mhz or 40 MHz automatically. If it finds too much interference it will revert back to 20 MHz and thus max speed you see on the 2.4 GHz band is usually 150 Mbps or sometimes 75 Mbps depending on the amount of interference.
Try to make transfers of a large file from a wired computer to wireless. Compare the transfer rates on both access points. Often you find that a foreced 40 MHz connection (which you cannot do on the Linksys) gives you crappy throughput on the 2.4 GHz because you allocate 2/3 of the total band available and thus almost any other wireless transmission in your neighborhood would interfere and slow down the transfers...

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I have spent most of the weekend trying to get this router to act as a proper Access Point.
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OK If this helps... I am running a SOHO
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How to use Home Hub 3 as a 2nd router(access point...

Hi guys hope you can help; I am trying to add my Home Hub 3 as a 2nd router (ie an access point) to my home network and struggling.
What am I trying to achieve.
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IP 192.168.1.1
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Also connection type on the E4200 is POE not POA – as far as I recall that is what it needed to be to connect to the DSL modem and work.

Thanks for the speedy reply!
I have actually came across this page before - I seem to hit a snag when I connect the repeater hub (my HH3). As outlined, I have at all times kept the repeater hub connected via ehternet into one of the regular LAN ports to my main HH5.
But when I connect my laptop to the repeat hub (HH3), I am actually connected to the internet somehow (I assuem using the HH5 network) but under my network connections it says I am connected to the HH3. As a result, when I go to the homehub settings page 192.168.1.254, it brings me to the main HH5 settings page and not the repeater HH3.
According to the instructions it says I should "Ignore the not connected page", but I am connected and I cant seem to alter any of the settings on my HH3 while it is connected to the HH5.
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Hello lucait
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I just replaced my netgear wireless router with the airport to allow our many devices on the network without knocking each other off and also increase the speed. But would like to use the netgear as a wireless bridge or access point so that I can still connect my NTFS formatted hard drive to be shared on the network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I can not seem to find my netgear router with 192.168.1.1 as that comes up with another device. I have tried doing this with a windows laptop in another room but can not seem to make it work. I am now hooked up directly to the airport thinking i need to do it that way and still no luck. Please help.

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Hi,
We are planing to deploy a wireless network that will cover two floors consisting of about 5 or 6 Access points. It should have 2 or 3 SSID (placing the clients in 2 or 3 different VLANS).
What would be the best solution for this?
I read a lot about wireless controllers. What about an option to just buy standalone access points? Are they all configured to work with the same SSID's and on the same channel?

A centralized controller should make your life easier:
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- Centralized monitoring - when someone has a problem, you can check the controller instead of having to figure out the AP to which they are connecting (computers don't always connect to the closest AP)
- Dumb AP's - if someone steals one of your APs, they will not be able to learn much about your network from a lightweight AP
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