Hi, I am trying to help someone with adding an Linksys wap54g access point to their existing Verizon Fios home network. They currently have wireless Verizon router in their basement but parts of their house, they are not getting any reception, it's a really big house! I gave them an old Linksys Access point and had them plug it in the one of the wired connections in the part of the house that wasn't working. They went in and put in same SSID as was in their router and it looked everything was good. But, they called next day and saying that they now notice 2 wireless networks availble with same ssid, one secured and one not so looks like the Access point and the wireless router are not working together but independently.
I've been reading around and find some comflicting information where some people say they need tol be on same channel and some say they don't? I am waiting for them to get back to me so I can take a look at some more but wanted to know if this can be done. Is it just that when we setup the access point, I don't think we setup same security as router wireless settings, could that be an issue? If the channels have to match then should I go into Verizon router and change from auto to specifice channel then do same for access point and is there any prefered channehl?
Thanks for any help. Joe
I've been reading around and find some comflicting information where some people say they need tol be on same channel and some say they don't? I am waiting for them to get back to me so I can take a look at some more but wanted to know if this can be done. Is it just that when we setup the access point, I don't think we setup same security as router wireless settings, could that be an issue? If the channels have to match then should I go into Verizon router and change from auto to specifice channel then do same for access point and is there any prefered channehl?
Thanks for any help. Joe