On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:23:09 GMT, Spender <Spender@Mars.org> wrote in
<nf5ef2t61br3307eospimft3pk9vsi8n7v@news.easynews. com>:
>I hope someone can help me with an interior decorating problem. ;)
>
>My new apartment has the cable outlet in an odd place, and it looks like
>the cable provider won't be able to move it. Because of the setup, that is
>where the television will go.
>
>So I need to set up my desk and computers on the opposite wall. I'd rather
>not run 50 ft. of cable around the perimeter of the room, and across two
>main walkways.
How about
:
* Under the carpet (with special cable)
* Behind the baseboards
>I currently have:
>
>Motorola SB5100 Cable Modem
>Linksys BEFSR41 Router
>Linksys 5 port Gigabit Switch
>4 systems with gigabit ethernet cards, and 1 notebook I've been using with
>ethernet.
>
>Obviously I don't want to go wireless on each system since that would
>defeat the purpose of the gigabit network.
>
>Can I bridge two WAP's so that I can have the modem and one WAP connected
>to the cable jack, and another WAP connected to the router? The internet
>connection is only 5 Mb/s, so good WAP's should mean that I would notice no
>degradation in speed.
What you want is:
* Cable Modem connected to the WAN port of a Wireless Access Point (WAP)
or of a Wireless Router configured as an Access Point.
* Wireless Client Bridge connected to the WAN port of the Wired Router.
>I've worked with WAP's before (I have a Linksys WAP sitting in a box
>somewhere that I've had no use for lately), but never bridging them, so I
>might not even understand what it means. For instance, if the WAP's are
>bridged can I ever connect the notebook via wireless?
>
>If anyone has any suggestions on how to solve my problem with no loss in
>speed I would appreciate it.
You can't bridge with two WAPs -- they won't talk to each other -- you
need a Wireless Client Bridge (also known as Wireless Ethernet Bridge).
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