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Brother Dai has just established a new group company, with offices located in a commercial building in Qingcheng. Since the building is newly renovated, it’s not feasible to install surface-mounted wiring through drilling or floor ducts, nor is it possible to use concealed wiring. The initial plan is to equip the General Manager’s Office, HR Department, Marketing Department, and Finance Department with both desktops and laptops, allowing them to connect via wired and wireless networks simultaneously. Brother Dai asked me to share my configuration approach. Considering that the building’s basic structure is reinforced concrete, the layout is complex and varied, and the environment causes significant attenuation of wireless signals, using a single wireless router for wireless network coverage could result in some computers receiving very weak signals or no signal at all, making it impossible to connect to the wireless network. To increase the wireless network coverage range, a wireless router will be placed in each department, and by connecting them via WDS, perfect coverage of the entire area can be achieved, eliminating dead zones.
As shown in Figure 1-1: Wireless Router A establishes a WDS connection with the central Wireless Router B. ‘A’ can represent any department. To simplify the concept, the setup steps for the wireless routers in other departments are the same as those for Wireless Router A, so we won’t repeat the operation for similar issues. To ensure that computers in other departments can access the internet normally, the computer connected to the central wireless router must be able to access the internet normally. (Note: The central Wireless Router B is a TP-LINK TL-WR941; the wireless routers for other departments, represented by A, are IP-LINK TL-WR340G+).
