After all, wizards do not always work without errors and a second check is always good. Once the device has rebooted, go through all the settings again manually.
Connect it to your WLAN and give the router a static IP in your network. Then you run the wizard for setting the router as client. The first step is to log into the WLAN of the TP-Link (how to do this is in the instructions – but you should also immediately notice it in the list of new available networks on your Mac). Instruction: Router as WLAN Client for Synology & Qnap NAS At the NAS you do not need to change anything, because this still thinks that it comes by cable into the network (which it does up to the small client router). Now that you know that you can simply connect a router to the NAS as a client, let’s get to the configuration of the TP-Link TP-WR802N. This again saves a power supply in the wall. In addition, the small router requires very little power and can be powered directly from the NAS with the included USB-A to micro-USB cable. In our case, however, the NAS is mostly used on the road via VPN and 100 Mbit/s is good enough for a fiber optic line in the upload. So you can of course do the idea of the WLAN client with a more mature or bigger router that can do more speed, or for example also with DD-WRT variants – the procedure is the same. Even if you don’t want to take bandwidth away from your neighbors and limit the channels to 20 MHz width, the maximum speed through a wall should still be reached.ġ0-12 MB/s are of course not very fast, if it is much faster otherwise. The small router transmits on 2.4 GHz and also with a width of 40 MHz, so it reaches a net speed of about 150 Mbit/s, which is enough. This router offers a maximum speed of 100 Mbit/s (limited by the network port), which is about 12 MB/s, but it can reach this speed through a few walls.
In this example, we decided to use the small TP-WR802N travel router from TP-Link. The right approach is simply to say goodbye to the NAS’s built-in WLAN function and get a device that specializes in it: a router. After all, if the NAS connects to the network via WLAN, why should that be worse by definition than when the computer accesses the wired NAS via WLAN? Exactly.Ī WLAN router builds a bridge to the NAS system Either they didn’t run at all, the right hardware revision was no longer available or after a reboot they simply didn’t log on to the Wifi anymore.Īfter a few weeks of testing, however, we have now found that the WLAN connection can be very stable if you do it right. Synology has officially discontinued support for this, Qnap still has it, but even when we bought the sticks mentioned in the detailed compatibility list, we only had problems. And that is for the connection via WLAN stick. Many NAS professionals will now say: “Oh dear God!”, “A NAS via WLAN into the network – what a nonsense: that will never run stable!” and we have to agree for one scenario actually. So the only way left is to connect to the network via radio wave. You have a Synology or Qnap NAS and want to connect it to your network via WLAN? Nothing could be easier.Ī common reason is that the NAS with its 3.5″ hard disks should be located where the operating noise is not annoying (in the basement or attic) and there may be no Ethernet connection but only power.
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