Checking proposed wireless bridge

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Would anyone who has done much the same care to comment on the following, whether to say I have the right general idea or to correct my course?

Context is that I wish to connect a cctv camera to an NVR on the other side of a plaster wall. The NVR is the DHCP server for the camera of course, and connection should be seamless.

Issue is this will be only a temporary arrangement so I do not wish to put any holes in said wall, run cables along floors through doorways, or anything like that.

Proposed solution is to connect via a wireless bridge.

Plan is to buy two mAP lite, ethernet connected to NVR and camera respectively, wirelessly bridged so that to the NVR and cam it is just a dumb switch.

From reading, my understanding of appropriate configuration steps (ROS 6.49.11) is:

  • Remove configuration
  • Create bridge and add both interfaces (eth1 and wireless)
  • Configure wireless identically on both devices except one is station and the other station bridge
  • Set protocol?
  • Connect and relax

I expect to offset the mAPs by a metre or so, while the wall will also attenuate the signal so the transmitter is not blasting the receiver. I will probably choose channel 13 (available here) because nobody else does.

Any advice, especially on the protocol point, welcome.

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Almost right, except:


One should be either bridge or AP bridge, the other station bridge. The other one should have frequency set to auto. I’d leave protocol at 802.11, if you set it to nv2 other 802.11 devices won0t notice it and there’s a chance to see big interference.

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Thank you mkx. Understood (I believe). I will be trying this in the new year so expect no confirmation of success or problems for a while.