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This year you do not need a separate router to connect to your robot wirelessly. This year's D-Link is both a router(AP Mode) and a bridge (just like last year's). If you configure the D-Link with the instructions for the router and leave it in AP mode you do not need a separate router. Once you power up your robot, your laptop should be able to see the "xx.yy" SSID and connect to it. If for some reason your laptop is not able to detect it. Then there is probably a 802.11 band mismatch. You can avoid this by setting up your radio with the 2.4GHz settings, and selecting the "Mixed" mode which will communicate with most if not all laptops currently on the market. The only time the D-Link is restricted to Bridge mode is at competitions, when all communications flow through the competition network. Really the only reason you would have to use a separate router this year is if you were using a desktop for development, and you did not want to tether your robot to upload code to your robot. I've attached the most recent copy of "How to Configure Your Radio" for your review.

FYI... We had an issue earlier trying to connect our radio to our driver station Classmate PC. The 2010 Classmate doesn't support 802.11N, so we had to revert to 2.4GHz and Mixed Radio in order to connect our driver station to our robot.