Fellow Draytek users...

Looking for some advice re extending wireless coverage over a large area. Our MD has just moved to a new house with a Demon broadband connection - we bought him a Draytek 2820 router which was configured and connected.

Problem is his new house has a lot of internal steel/mirrors/glass and his home-office is at the other side of the house from the Draytek.

If we bought another 2820 and set that up in range of the first 2820 - would that extend wireless coverage in a daisy-chain effect meaning he could access broadband from the other side of the house?

It would be best to use the AP-700 access point for that, you can set up a WDS or universal repeater link between the two / chain more of them to cover the distance.

Thanks for that

Do you happen to know if there will be any degradation in dsl services when using WDS? And does this device support VPN?

VPN connection is initiated from laptop, it is not a site-to-site VPN so traffic only needs to pass through the AP-700 rather than be configurable for VPN.

The AP-700 will just pass through the traffic so it wont affect VPN connections whether you're using WDS or universal repeater mode.

It shouldn't affect DSL bandwidth although it will get slower as you chain more on, it shouldn't affect latency or be anything lower than you'd see with a normal internet connection.

Many thanks Voodle - answered my questions perfectly.

Appreciated!