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Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio

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Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio

I am trying to set up a brand new Ubiquiti NanoBeam M2 radio to 
act as a wifi extender to extend my Internet connection a few 
hundred feet outside to where the kids play at the pool.

I already had the laptop wlan0 port connected to the Internet via
the home broadband router SSID, and I just want the laptop eth0 
port to be rebroadcasting that Internet connection a few hundred 
feet away (via the new nanobeam radio).

The laptop & radio physical connections are set up as shown:
http://i.imgur.com/hBndic1.jpg

Where the laptop is already on the Internet via its wireless port
wlan0 paired over the air to the home wifi broadband router's SSID 
and the nanobeam radio is connected to the laptop ethernet port 
eth0 via a cat5 cable (and POE for electrical power to the radio).

I set the laptop ports to be on the same network as the router:
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.98
$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.99

Where the home broadband router is at IP address 192.168.1.1:
$ route -n
... stuff ... 
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 9 0 0 wlan0

I set the nanobeam to the United States frequencies as shown below:
http://i.imgur.com/CumFEI1.jpg

I left the new nanobeam at the default settings, so I logged into
that nanbeam at IP address 192.168.1.20 using ubnt/ubnt as shown:
http://i.imgur.com/LwQN9it.jpg

But, here is where I am stuck.

I'm confused what to do next in order to then go a few hundred feet
away with a DIFFERENT laptop (or cellphone), and pick up the resulting
signal being broadcast from the nanobeam.

Anyone extended their WiFi like this before who can get me over the
next hurdle? 

I do not know how to set up the nanobeam settings to extend the 
wifi. Any help or advice is appreciated, as this is my first time.

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Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio Werner Obermeier <spamfreewob@arcor.de> - 2015-06-05 21:09 +0000
  Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio Arthur Conan Doyle <dont@bother.com> - 2015-06-05 16:32 -0600
    Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio GlowingBlueMist <GlowingBlueMist@blackhole.io> - 2015-06-05 19:28 -0500
  Re: Need help extending home wifi using Ubiquiti nanobeam M2 radio DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2015-06-06 02:09 -0400

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