WDS Mesh

• Wireless Distribution system is L2 bridging

• Works with single radio AP meshes used by a number of low end commercial products, eg “range extenders”

• Supported by Open/DD WRT

• Issues

• • Maximum effective throughput is effectively halved for each station through which a packet must be relayed.
  • Dynamically rekeyed protocols (eg WPA) cannot be used in conjuction with a WDS mesh