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Using a Range Extender with WLC & LWAP

ccpagel
Level 1
Level 1

Hi,

is it possible to use a Wireless range extender with a WLAN installation of LWAPs & WLC?

Is there a security setting in the WLC that prevents multiple clients connecting through the range extender?

Any advise would be appreciated.

Regards,

Chris

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Nicolas Darchis
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

No.

Range extenders are horrible devices that kill your bandwitdh, increase the collision rate and would totally kill the radio management algorithm. For this reason they are not supported and you should not even look into them. They were more popular when you had very few IOS APs and the speed rates were low. I'm not sure that 11n range extenders actually exist.

Anyway, if you want to extend the range, you could look into bridging APs or mesh APs (AP not connected via wire, uses 5ghz band for backhaul transport to root AP and 2ghz to server clients).

George Stefanick
VIP Alumni
VIP Alumni

You may want to try "mesh" with your WLC to extend your coverage area.

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