Making a repeater out of an access point and extra bit

Between me and my neigbour is a granite barn. I have a wireless
access point in my house. I also have an old unused access point. I
would like to put the unused access point in the window of the barn
facing my neighbour and the an ethernet cable accross the barn to the
window on the other side facing me were there would be some sort of
client ethernet wireless adaptor connecting to my access point so my
neighbour would then be able to connect their computers to the access
point in my house and my computers.

The bit I'm stuck on is the wireless ethernet client adaptor bit. I
thought initially that I could just use one of these gamiing adaptors
but many of them say they only support connecting one computer and
forwarding one mac address. Does this mean it would not work? I see
the linksys wep11 supports many mac address's but it does not seem to
be availble in the uk anymore.

Can amyone suggest any suitable gadgets, or if I'm on the wrong track?
802.11b is fine I'm ideally hoping for something slightly older I can
pick up cheaply on ebay.

Anyway any help appreciated. Thanks

ff <webbygodnospammy@usa.net> hath wroth:

>Between me and my neigbour is a granite barn. I have a wireless
>access point in my house. I also have an old unused access point. I
>would like to put the unused access point in the window of the barn
>facing my neighbour and the an ethernet cable accross the barn to the
>window on the other side facing me were there would be some sort of
>client ethernet wireless adaptor connecting to my access point so my
>neighbour would then be able to connect their computers to the access
>point in my house and my computers.
>
>The bit I'm stuck on is the wireless ethernet client adaptor bit. I
>thought initially that I could just use one of these gamiing adaptors
>but many of them say they only support connecting one computer and
>forwarding one mac address.

Who says that and what manufacturer or model number? Most game
adapter will pass more than one MAC address.

>Does this mean it would not work? I see
>the linksys wep11 supports many mac address's but it does not seem to
>be availble in the uk anymore.

See the FAQ at:
<http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi#Wireless_Ethernet_Bridges>
The ones tagged "multi" will bridge multiple MAC addresses. As far as
I can tell, only the very old wireless ethernet client bridges will do
only one MAC address.

>Can amyone suggest any suitable gadgets, or if I'm on the wrong track?
>802.11b is fine I'm ideally hoping for something slightly older I can
>pick up cheaply on ebay.

Are you concerned about security? If so, make sure your prospective
wireless client bridge can do WPA or WPA2. WEP is useless. Very few
802.11b devices support WPA or WPA2 encryption.

I have a mess of DLink DWL-900AP+ and Linksys WAP11 client bridges
running on our neighborhood WLAN. Most have more than one computah
behind the bridge so I know they will handle more than one MAC
address. However, they only do WEP, so they're not very secure. I
would really like to replace them, but have not found a good reason to
create a crisis.

You can also use some routers as a wireless bridge or client bridge.
Many Broadcom based routers will run DD-WRT firmware, that can act as
a client, transparent bridge, access point, router, whatever. Because
there are far more wireless routers sold than wireless client bridges,
the prices of these devices are about the same even though they have
more hardware inside. My favorite of the week is Buffalo WHR-HP-G54.

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