Overview
What wireless device you need to extend the existing wireless network? You need a wireless range extender. What wireless device you need to extend the LAN network wirelessly? You need a wireless access point. And what wireless device you need to connect Ethernet enabled device to the wireless network? You need a wireless client. You need three different wireless devices for three different situations. Is there a single wireless device which can function as a wireless access point, wireless range extender, and as the wireless client? Yes, you need DLink DAP1360 – one of Dlink Range Extender devices.
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The model of the device is simple; black box with two external antennas doesn’t look attractive design.
What this Product Does
DLink DAP1360 is an affordable range extender device, a single device with multiple mode functions: Access Point, Bridge with Access Point, Repeater, or Wireless Client.
With DAP-1360 you can easily:
- Extend or create a wireless network in home or office. Click here to build wireless network and setup wireless repeater with Dap-1360
- Install and Connect with Wi-Fi Protected Setup™ for easy secure connection
- Secure wireless encryption using WPA/WPA2 Security
The device also provides an excellent solution for upgrading your wireless network to Wireless N technology, which significantly outperforms previous-generation Wireless G.
Setting Up
The Dlink DAP1360 Wireless N range extender is designed to work with computers equipped with Windows®, Macintosh®, or Linux-based operating systems. To configure the device, you need a computer with an Ethernet interface and an Internet browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or above, Netscape Navigator 7.0 or above, or FireFox 1.5 or above. The following steps describe general guidelines in setting up your DAP.
Step 1: Connect the Power Adapter.
Connect the power adapter to the power socket on the back of this device first, and then plug it to your AC power outlet. Check to see that the Power LED on the front panel of the DAP is turned ON.
Step 2: Connect the Antenna and Ethernet Cable.
Connect both antennas to the antenna connectors on the back of your Dlink DAP1360. Connect one end of the Ethernet cable to the LAN port on the back panel of the DAP and the other end of this cable to your computer’s Ethernet port. If your computer is connected to an Ethernet network via an Ethernet switch, connect this end of the cable to the switch’s port.
Step 3: Begin Configuring your DAP.
Assume that configuration will be set to default setting including the AP mode and no wireless security. Type in your browser and enter the default IP address http://192.168.0.50 with default username is admin and leave the password blank. You can now follow the screen wizard necessarily.
Dlink DAP1360 as Range Extender
You can configure your DAP as the wireless range extender to extend the range of your existing wireless network. After you configure the device as the wireless extender, you can put the DAP in the area where signal range needs to extend. Generally you need better range signal in your garden or in your gazebo to allow you browse the internet with your laptop, iPad or any other Android mobile devices.
The figure below shows the connection diagram of DAP as the wireless range extender or repeater.
Dlink DAP1360 as the Wireless Access Point
The default setting of the DAP is configured as the wireless access point. With wireless access point, you can create a wireless network from the existing wired network. Connect the RJ-45 LAN port of the device to the modem-router or to the Switch as shown in the figure below.
DAP as the Wireless Client
This DAP DLink range extender can also be configured as the wireless clients to allow network devices with Ethernet enabled to connect wirelessly to the existing wireless network. Have a look at the diagram below, the Surfboard 6120 cable modem connects to the wireless router. Game console with the DAP will be configured as a wireless client to the router.
In the Wireless Client mode, the DAP acts as a wireless network adapter for your Ethernet-enabled device (such as a game console or a TV set-top box). Connect your Ethernet-enabled device to the AP using an Ethernet cable. The AP Client mode can support multiple wired clients.
To allow multiple Ethernet-enabled devices to your Dlink DAP1360, you can connect the LAN port of the DAP to an Ethernet switch, and then connect your devices to this switch. For example with your gaming console, instead of deploying the game console wireless adapter, you can connect the console using an Ethernet cable to the DAP. The unit is set to Wireless Client mode which will wirelessly connect to a wireless router on your network.
By Ki Grinsing
@Jesse:
- Your router ip 192.168.20.?? => so you have to configure the dap to have the ip in the same subnet ..say 192.168.20.50 for example.
- your client generates the ip 169.254.xxx.xxx and subnet mask 255.255.0.0 => it means that the client computers don’t receive the ip from the dhcp server => you should enable the dhcp on the dap with the range something like 192.168.20.100 until 192.168.20.150 for example, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and default gateway your router ip (192,168.20.??)
- don’t be confused with the LAN physically connected with network cable and the wireless network => both are Local network => so they need to have the same subnet (192.168.20.0)
@Robert:
I figure out your case:
- router at downstairs connect to the internet via cable / dsl
- router in upstair, three computers with wired connection to your router. if you connect the dap to the rouetr (WAN port) that will not work. Think this way, configure the dap as the wireless bridge and consider the router as the switch – do not connect the dap to the WAN port of the roouter but the LAN port. I am not sure if you can use the router as the switch but you can try. So the computers with wired connection to the router become the clients to the wireless network from downstairs.
put the power in just an antenna?
I need to make a bridge with 2 DAP-1360
Trying to setup as Access Point but dap1360 is weird, I change my desktop ip to 192.168.0.52 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0.
Then trying to connect to 192.168.0.50 (dap 1360) and I am getting an error, says the address is not valid.
I don’t understand this product.
This is unusual, there must be something wrong with the device if you can prove the network cable is OK.
Please review:
1. the network cable is functional
2. review your computer tcp/ip, test using “ping localhost” or “ping 127.0.0.1″ and see if you get 0% packet lost. If you RTO (request time out) then your tcp/ip config. is problem
Hi,
I seem to have a similar problem as Jesse, but cannot solve it with the tips already provided.
Is it expected that once you save the settings of the DAP in Repeater mode, that you can no longer ‘manage’ it?
It seems I can only connect after a reset and then so long as I don’t save any ‘repeater’ settings…
Also, I believe that as soon as you activate the repeater settings, it does no longer function as a DHCP server, so I believe that the Dap must somehow ‘pass’ the DHCP server function of the AP, right?
Current situation is that the DAP does increase the coverage in my garage from 1 to 4-5 bars, it does show the right SIDD, but indeed the DAP does not ‘give’ me an IP, so I end up with a 169…. (apipa) IP.
Would it be an option to set Static IP for all my devices at home and would that mean that i need to change back and forth between dhcp and static every time I go to another location with my ipad and laptops?
thanks!
Tjerk
Trying to connect to 192.168.0.50 (dap 1360) and I am getting an error, says the address is not valid.
let me recap:
- You configured the dap with the static ip address which is not within the range of your router dhcp zone but still in the same subnet as the router subnet.
- you launched the setup wizard, select the repeater and click the site survey
- you enabled the dhcp of the dap with the range not to oeverlap with the router’s dhcp zone
- your clients still did not receive the ip from the dap (received the apipa address) even though you renewed using the “ipconfig /renew”
Have you tried this: provide a static ip address, reboot the laptop and then reconfigure the laptop to use the dhcp address. other words: release the dhcp setting, give the static ip, and then use dhcp again – place the laptop outside the range of the router but in the range of the dap. see if this will fix the problem.
@Rob
I assume your response is meant for me.
I think I did as you mentioned, at least once, also with the ‘apipa result’.
So I configured DHCP in range 192.168.1.60-100 or so on the DAP, while DHCP range for my AP is 20-40 or so, both in 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 lan. I am not sure about the IP for the DAP itself though. It might have been static set to .20 or so, while that was within the AP DHCP range… Might that be the problem? (don’t see why it should as long as no IP conflicts are reported by AP)
Maybe part of my problem is that the place I want to get better coverage, has this 1-2 bar coverage for the AP itself (in practice my IPAD does not get connection at all, and my laptop frequently drops connection). I do think that when the DAP/repeater is turned on, it will make sure that there is no connection setup with the AP itself, meaning it “overrules successfully” the signal of the AP at that location.
I will try the idea you suggest. I guess it is worth a try if the laptop remembers the DHCP IP it already has from the AP, when I move “being connected” from AP coverage area to DAP coverage area…
Can you also answer my questions around the Dap not being available anymore (via the browser) when the repeater setting is saved? Is that how it should work? Does it indeed mean that every time I want to try a different setting on the DAP, I first need to reset it, to be able to connect again?
Thanks!
“…I am not sure about the IP for the DAP itself though….”
it is likely that you didn’t change the DAP Ip address to be in the same subnet (192.168.1.0) as your router (AP), the default ip address of the DAP is 192.168.0.50. If this is the case, you should change the ip address of the dap. Go to the lan setup menu, change to static ip address, provide the ip in the same subnet as the AP and gateway is the IP address of your router.
” …Can you also answer my questions around the Dap not being available anymore (via the browser) when the repeater setting is saved? Is that how it should work? Does it indeed mean that every time I want to try a different setting on the DAP, I first need to reset it, to be able to connect again? ….”
If the ip address of the dap and the pc which you use to manage the dap have different subnet, you cannot manage it, assuming that you don’t change the dap ip address while your pc is still in the 192.168.1.0 subnet. except that you change all the subnet mask to 255.255.0.0 not 255.255.255.0., with 255.255.0.0 both 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.0.0 are in the same subnet, so they can communicate each other.
Hi Rob,
I did change DAP IP to same subnet before setting it to repeater.
Anyway, after I did the dhcp-> fixed IP -> dhcp thingy on the laptop, it seems to work fine now. Maybe I was just impatient and had to wait awhile longer for the network to settle (when moving from one range to another).
I am not sure I understand why it works now, but it does.
Thanks,
Tj
Hello,
We have a problem in configuring dap-1360 in university, and I am not expert at all in wireless.
-The building has ethernet ports on the wall (no modem visible), and they all work
-I have a couple of Static IP’s (and subnetmask, gateway,2 dns) assigned for different users pc’s (and all work when configured for pc’s)
To install wireless we bought a dap-1360 and I spent the day without success.
-I folowed the instructions and attached the dap-1360 to my laptop (lenovo) via one RJ45 cable
-configured via the web browser and chosen AP mode, assigned a name, ssid, no key
-Picked up an unused Static IP for the dap-1360 (for sure unused)
-reboot
-plugged the dap-1360 to one RJ45 on the wall
-plugged my laptop to another RJ45 on the wall
My laptop is thus wired and pings correctly the static IP of the dap-1360. The webinterface admin also pings correctly my computer and also the outside world (google.com or another university). All leds ok. I then tested wireless, so unplugged the RJ45 from laptop (no internet), and switch on wireless adapter, that correctly sees the dap-1360 ssid. Clicked connect via windows 7 (and lenovo access connection), but the connection fails. Troubleshoot returns “dhcp server not responding”.
What goes wrong? Thanks for your help, we are not familiar with this, do we need a router?
ps: also tried to reset and set dynamic ip, but did not work neither
Is there any DHCP server available on the wired network?
Make some notes:
- what’s your network ip for exapmle 192.168.2.0 subnet mask 255.255.255.0
- provide static ip dap1360 with the ip address not used by others and in the same network 192.168.2.xxx / 255.255.255.0
- Configure your dap1360 with the dhcp enable and scope ip address in the same network ip for example 192.168.2.200 until 192.168.2.250 subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Make sure the dhcp scope is not overlapped with your existing network dhcp. gateway point to your internet gateway
Jack, thanks for your prompt reply.
I do not know how to check from a pc that there is a dhcp server. What I can say is that if I configure a computer attached to LAN in automatic IP addresses I cannot get internet. The university delivers to us a static IP each time we have a new computer or device that we need ot put in the building.
As for your question, subnetmask is 255.255.255.224, our network IP’s are in the form 150.217.xx.xx. I confirm that the IP configured on the dap-1360 works when I configure it on a laptop, so it is recognized within the network. Any steps to check further? I probably miss a point.
It means that your network doesn’t offer dhcp server. The problem if you enable the dhcp server on dap1360, you don’t have idea which range of ip addresses are not used. The only way you can do is to consult with the university admin if you can use a range of ip addresses to use in the dap1360 dhcp scope.
with the subnet mask 255.255.255.224, it means each segmen has only 32 ip addresses. If you use for example 150.217.xx.1 until 150.217.xx.30 subnet mask 255.255.255.224, other computers with the same static ip in the range of dhcp scope will cause ip conflict. This will cause problem.
Consult with your university admin, request some 5 spare ip for example to use as the dhcp scope of the dap.
Jack, thanks very much for your insightful advice. I will check this out.
I am have a difficulty configuring this dap 1360. Trying to access dlinkap in the internet is not opening. I looks like this is not easy installation. Could you help me configure this according to installation guide book.
@nestor: can’t you use http://192.168.0.50 in your browser?
try to reset the dap and see what happend.