You can't have 2 WAP's as a bridge and allow access to the channel as they are operating in adhoc mode - effectively the same as a peer to peer network consisting of 2 PC's and a crossover cable. Your third WAP is operating in another mode the name of which escapes me at present.
Your set up would have been a lot simpler - cheaper - if you had run a phone extension upstairs and located the ADSL modem there - one decent WAP should then have given you roaming abiliy throughout the house.
I presume you have secured the WLAN with MAC addresses as a minimum. The need to do this was brought home to me when I plugged a USB WAP receiver into a PC upstairs which detected and connected me to my neighbours unsecured WLAN !! The kit he was using was netgear and {Link} let me straight into the combined ADSL/WAP router with no password - apparently the default.
You can't have 2 WAP's as a bridge and allow access to the channel as they are operating in adhoc mode - effectively the same as a peer to peer network consisting of 2 PC's and a crossover cable. Your third WAP is operating in another mode the name of which escapes me at present.
Your set up would have been a lot simpler - cheaper - if you had run a phone extension upstairs and located the ADSL modem there - one decent WAP should then have given you roaming abiliy throughout the house.
I presume you have secured the WLAN with MAC addresses as a minimum. The need to do this was brought home to me when I plugged a USB WAP receiver into a PC upstairs which detected and connected me to my neighbours unsecured WLAN !! The kit he was using was netgear and {Link} let me straight into the combined ADSL/WAP router with no password - apparently the default.