Customer Reviews

Buffalo AirStation 54 Mbps Wireless Compact Repeater Bridge WLA2-G54C

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This product works well once setup, but the initial setup took me two hours. I had difficulty setting up the WDS (Wireless Bridge) and the AOSS didnt work as advertised. The buffalo technician said the AOSS typically did not setup well with WDS which I thought was suprising since I figured most people are going to buy this for that reason (unless you are going to use it as a wired access point) so in summary just be prepared to spend a little while setting this repeater up.

This is apparently the Cadillac of repeater bridges, the favorite of the folks at CNet. What no one tells the average home user, though, is that to connect to a wireless router wirelessly (as opposed to being connected by a cable to one of the router's Ethernet ports), the router you're connecting to must have the WDS (wireless distribution system) technology. Apparently, not all routers that DSL providers give to their customers (I got the Westell VersaLink 327W from Verizon) are WDS-enabled. So here I am with a Buffalo repeater that I can either use by stringing cable from my router to the point where I want the repeater to be (exactly what I wanted to avoid) or I can buy a new wireless router w/ WDS capability... or I can throw it on the pile of unusable tech, which is probably what I'll do.

Oh, and as others have noted, the setup is difficult to understand for those without experience setting up networks.

The only reason I give it more than 1 star is that it's so well regarded by others. But my experience has been a zero-star one.

Worked well with non-buffalo router also - but only with a seperate SSID.

I wanted seamless integration throughout house so I bought a buffalo router - with 1 buffalo router and two of these repeaters I can walk through 6k sq foot without a drop.

One of them is even used as a bridge to my XBOX360