For average users, simply buying a wireless router and doing a quick setup is enough to meet the needs of a home or small-area network. But if the range is too far, a single router can’t do much. You may have run into this before: using a wireless router in a two-story house, with the router on the first floor and weak signals in some upstairs rooms; or needing to share broadband with a neighbor across the hall, but obstacles make wiring difficult; or a company’s office and warehouse are in two separate buildings, and when the wireless router is in the office, the signal in the warehouse is very weak.
So how can you effectively and economically boost your wireless signal using existing equipment? In fact, as long as your original wireless router supports WDS, adding another WDS-capable wireless device solves the problem instantly!
What Is WDS
WDS (Wireless Distribution System) is built on HFSS or DSSS and allows base stations to communicate with each other. What makes it different is that WDS can function as a wireless network repeater, and multiple base stations can connect to one. Many wireless base stations now include WDS.
