di-624 as an access point

puzzled186 hath wroth:

From the FAQ How-To: |

I tried to use my DI624 as an access point with Draytek Vigor modem/router a but I found problems. It worked for awhile but after an hour or two it slowed right down. After power cycling it was back to normal. The DI had been working fine as a plain wired router in another house. I ended up replacing the DI with a Belkin Wireless Access Point/Range Extender and that seems fine.

"CWatters" hath wroth:

Weird. The method works well enough in about a dozen installations that I know about. However, none of them currently use a DI-624 so I have no personal experience.

I don't see how it is possible for the wireless to work differently when used as an access point instead of a router. The only real difference is that the router section is not used and ignored. The wireless bridge part is exactly the same in both configurations and should therefore work the same. The only things I can think of that might cause problems is if there is some bug or glitch in the DI-624 firmware or that there was an NWAY configuration mismatch on the ethernet connection between the DI-624 and the Draytek Vigor box.

Yes I never got to the bottom of it and as access points aren't that expensive I took the easy way out.

The slow down appeared to effect the DNS process more than the raw speed. Pages took longer to find and sometimes timed out with DNS errors.