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Old 07-11-2007, 05:36 AM
berman.josh@gmail.com
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Default building a wireless bridge

Here's the situation:
I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
go about this?
Thanks,
- Josh


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Old 07-11-2007, 07:33 AM
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berman.josh@gmail.com wrote:
> Here's the situation:
> I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
> router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
> side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
> different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
> F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
> I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
> go about this?
> Thanks,
> - Josh


Have you considered doing something lo-tech, like say, run a phone line to
your office, and have both voice and data in there? If like most apartments,
and you cant make perm changes, Found stuff at an office store that looked
like clear tape (1/2" wide 1/32" thick, self stick and ran it on the
baseboards to my spare room). Or my friend went with a medium tech way, a
powerline ethernet bridge (under $100 for up to 85 Mbps,
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Powe...tAdapters.aspx
they have cheaper ones that are slower and more expensive that are faster,
but these are IMO just right ((faster than wireless and not too
expensive))... and then in his spare room/office end, he has it hooked to a
linksys wrt54g ($48 at walmart), so he has both wired and wireless. Wish I
would have known of that option before I messed with the wire.

Unfortunately, from past annoyances, being in an apartment and having no
control over what the neighbors can do to screw my wireless up (baby
monitors, microwaves, etc), so if you can figger out an alternate way, you
may enjoy it more.




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Old 07-17-2007, 07:25 AM
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<berman.josh@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184128569.596221.129560@q75g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com...
> Here's the situation:
> I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
> router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
> side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
> different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
> F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
> I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
> go about this?
> Thanks,
> - Josh
>


You could do a WDS link, a lot of wireless routers will do that. Or get a
client capable router that will allow multiple CAT5 connections to get on.
Sometimes after-market firmware can do this... if the stock firmware cannot.

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Old 07-17-2007, 08:25 AM
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"Alan Spicer" <aspicer@marinetelecom.net> hath wroth:

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><berman.josh@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1184128569.596221.129560@q75g2000hsh.googleg roups.com...
>> Here's the situation:
>> I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
>> router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
>> side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
>> different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
>> F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
>> I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
>> go about this?
>> Thanks,
>> - Josh


>You could do a WDS link, a lot of wireless routers will do that. Or get a
>client capable router that will allow multiple CAT5 connections to get on.
>Sometimes after-market firmware can do this... if the stock firmware cannot.


Most current model wireless client ethernet bridges will handle
multiple MAC addresses. That lets you connect more than one computah
to the wireless client ethernet bridge. Some have a built in ethernet
switch. For example, the Buffalo WLI-TX4-G54HP has 4 ethernet ports
on the back:
<http://www.buffalotech.com/products/wireless/wireless-g-mimo-performance/wireless-g-mimo-performance-ethernet-converter/>

There's also a list of wireless client ethernet bridges in the FAQ at:
<http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi#Wireless_Ethernet_Bridges>
which include whether they can handle multiple MAC addresses. The
only exception is some versions of the DLink DWL-2100AP firmware,
which managed to break this feature.

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