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Term: WLAN-Repeater Wiki Freetz IPPF whmf AVM Web
Short for: Wireless Local Area Network Repeater
Location: Lexicon >> FRITZ-Terms
Weblinks: Wikipedia.int  -  Wikipedia.de
Description: Device to range extend an existing WLAN network

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Details

A WLAN-Repeater is a device or a router operating mode used to range extend an existing WLAN network.

FRITZ!OS

There are quite sone things to care of to successfully repeat WLAN using FRITZ!OS.
Most WLAN capable models support repeating, but not all.

Unsupported

Models which do not support any WLAN-Repeater capability and their WLAN chipsets:

All Fiber models:

All Broadcom chipsets:

All Intel chipsets:

Some QCA chipsets:

Additionally:

  • Most ISP provided branded Cable models
  • All Cable models before fw X (todo: research) since they did not support an IP-Client mode

Source: AVM Knowledge document #1452 - toggle the model selector top right - last verified 2023-12-08.

Assumption: AVM does not have the manpower to add their proprietary WDS2 extension to all these chipsets.
This may change with future updates.

WDS1

WDS, in FRITZ!OS world called WDS1, was the first protocol used for repeating WLAN.
It is supported by all older models up to generation x1xx (ie: 7170).
See the WDS1-Selector for a sortable list of WDS1 capable models.

A WDS1 box can be used as a repeater with a router from another manufacturer, but only using WEP or WPA1 encryption. Since these are both insecure this is not recommended. As a workaround AVM added a proprietary WPA2 extension,
which only works between AVM WDS1 capable models:

TNETW1130:

TNETW1350:

Merlin:

Owl:

The WDS capability of the Speedports needs a review.

WDS2

WDS2 is the AVM internal name of their new proprietary repeater protocol. It was introduced with FRITZ!OS 5.50.
All repeater capable models with at least fw 5.50 are compatible to each others. WDS2 is incompatible to WDS1,
and does not support repeating third party hardware any more.

See the WDS2-Selector for a sortable list of WDS2 capable models. So far WDS2 is only supported by QCA chipsets:

Owl:

Merlin:

Osprey:

Cascade:

Kiwi:

Dakota:

Mixed:

WDS3

todo

Guest-Network

Spanning a Guest-Network on a WDS2+ capable WLAN-Repeater was introduced long before Mesh.
This uses a l2tpv3d tunnel to the Guest-Network of the front box, which splits and routes the networks.

Some models do NOT support this feature:

This info was collected manually from the REPEATER_GUEST_AP definition in the wlan-feature.cfg fw 7.63.

Credits

This article and especially the list of Unsupported models was inspired by this video from CLP-Tutorials:

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