wireless bridge problems

[trimberger]

According to the manual, you must configure the Bridge thruogh the router before you configure the router. Once the router is configured, it can't talk to the bridge any more. As an alternative, connect your bridge directly to you computer to configure it. (Some have said this doesn't work, so I recommend following the instructions, with the caveat below.


When configuring your wireless router, the configured WIRELESS BRIDGE MUST NOT BE CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER WITH A WIRE (which might be the case if you just finished configuring the bridge). If you leave it connected, as soon as the router setup connects it wirelessly to the bridge, you get a zillion packets flowing around wire cloggig the router's buffer, so it dies and needs to be power-cycled.

There is a problem with the documentation for the 2010 Veteran Team wireless setup. (2009 documentation is OK; Rookie does not have this problem)

Recommended change to 2010 Documentation:

Section 2, page 47, section 2.10.2 Insert Step:
0. Disconnect the Ethernet cable between the WGA600N wireless bridge and the WRT610N wireless router

Note: waiting until step 10 as implied in the documentation only works if you type and click really fast because the buffers start filling at step 6.