The main reason is that I wanted to utilize the extra wireless 4 port router
that I already have. I would like to be able to use the laptop on my back
patio this spring and summer. I work at home and get tired of being stuck
in this basement office when the weather is nice.


"Peter Pan" <pponvistaNOSPAM@MarcAlanNOSPAM.Info> wrote in message
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> "Don Harvey" <moark1@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>>I don't know if I can do this so thought I would ask first. I have a
>>Linksys 4 port wireless on the 2nd floor. Since the wireless signal was
>>weak in my basement office, I ran cable down and connected a 8 port
>>switch.
>>
>> Now I need wireless connection for a laptop on the main floor. I was
>> thinking about running a cable back up from the 8 port basement switch
>> and connecting a wireless access point on the main floor.
>>
>> I have another Linksys 4 port router and wondering if this can be use as
>> a wireless access on the main floor before buying just the Linksys
>> WAP54g.
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>
>
> why don't you just use WRT54gs (WAP/Routers) instead of just wap's,
> routers, and switches? (cheaper, and wap and router are in the same box,
> you can even get em cheap at walmart)
> you can daisy chain as many wrt's together as you want (supposedly, i've
> only done 5, but can't see why you can't do more)
> and you wouldn't need to run another cable
>
> do you have any specific reason you want to use seperate wap's and
> routers?