I have just obtained a Sonicwall TZ-150 wireless appliance and a
Netgear EVA700 media player. The latter is a box that takes input from
an RJ-45 cable or 802.11g radio waves, and outputs audio and video
(analog) to a TV.

These two devices are not playing nice. Perhaps this is a common theme
in the world of 802.11g?

I am thinking that I might have to try placing a wireless bridge
between the two devices. What I mean is that I would continue to use
the TZ-150 as a wireless router/firewall/access point. I would attach
a simple bridge to the EVA700 via RJ-45 cable. The bridge would "talk" to
the TZ-150 via radio and relay to the RJ-45 cable, out to the EVA700.

Another midnight engineering project.

My problem is that I can't find a decent bridge. I want WPA, and I
want reasonable bandwidth, in order to support streaming MPEG
bitstreams at HDTV bitrates. 15 Mbit/s. would be nice.

The Linksys WET54G would be ideal, except that it might be a piece of
shit. I have looked at the user reviews at Amazon.com and I am not
encouraged.

Am I going to have to deploy a full service wireless AP and configure
it to be a simple bridge? Or is there a nice, compact bridge that
doesn't suck?

Thanks for any suggestions.
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David Arnstein (00)
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