Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
I set up some Dlink stuff (yes M-B, I know) years ago to do this. It could be made to work but in those days it was an unreliable faff. maybe it's better now. Did halve throughput though.
It all depends on what kit you're using. The better kit uses 802.11a radio as a backhaul between nodes, leaving the APs to broadcast at full speed on 802.11g/n as necessary (with obviously the 54mbit/s backhaul as the bottleneck on n-radio APs).