Airport Express WDS seeing 2 networks?

[kuma]

I just bought another Airport Express (APX) and I'm trying to set it up as a WDS to extend my wireless signal. I have it up and running but it shows up as another wireless signal, even when I have it named as the same network name as the base unit.
I've followed the these directions:
1. If you choose to do a manual WDS configuration (as opposed to the automatic feature used in the steps above), be sure that all base stations have the same network name. Attempting to give base stations differentiated network names on a WDS network may render the network inoperable. Returning base stations to the network name of the main should return the network to operation.
2. All WDS base stations should be set to the same channel. When using automatic configuration, as in the steps above, this is done for you. However, you need to be aware of this when configuring manually. Access the channel setting by clicking the AirPort tab in AirPort Admin Utility.
3. When configuring a remote or relay manually, be sure that the "Distribute IP addresses" checkbox is not selected.
4. When you use WDS, some of each base station's capacity is used as overhead for maintaining the network. This means that if you were to measure the maximum throughput speed of your network, it would be less than when using one base station by itself.

I've set this up using a Thinkpad with its Access Connection software. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with it.

Please help.

[steveh]

I have been using a similar setup with my T42p with 3 AirPort Express units (Main, relay, and remote). The way you have it set up should work with no problems, but I do not use Access Connections with any Of the ThinkPads (XP Pro and Vista business). After you setup the main do you then have the remote or relay find the main (by MAC ID)? If so, then WDS should work and only one network should show up. I would try the setup again as this works very well once established. HTH.

Steve

[zverg]

Even with WDS, access connections will show each individual access point, because access connections lists any access point it sees (by MAC address).

The windows xp/vista wireless control panel, on the other hand, only shows the "networks" it can see, by SSID. I come across the situation when I'm on campus, where access connections can see 20 access points with SSID "rit", but windows shows it as one network. I prefer to see the list because if there's an issue with one access point I can switch to another manually.

Aside from seeing the multiple access points, have you had any other problems? Is roaming from access point to access point working seamlessly as it should with WDS?

[monkey243]

first of all,make sure have SSID,channel setting the same.then,set repeate AP's WDS mode to WDS dedicated mode.after this settings,i sure you only can see then base AP's SSID.