Wireless Bridge using Linksys 2x WAP54g's

As porkenstein has not had a response to his question yet, i'll not pin too much hope on a reply to this, but, heres my question (sic)..

I am trying to set up a wireless bridge between two of our office buildings using 2 linksys wap54g AP's.
My understanding is that when they are configured (bridge mode only, each using the others mac address to identify each end of the bridge, and WPA configured with the same passphrase at each end) they will in fact act EXACTLY as an ethernet cable between the 2 buildings.
ARP, DHCP, WINS requests and broadcasts etc pass over the bridge without any routing rules etc being required to get to the "remote" site and back.
Am I correct??
Am I missing something??
Problem is.. I cant seem to get traffic between the 2 buildings.

Can anyone offer ant specific help?

Thanks

Andy

Andy,

The WAP54G will do a Point to Point bridge and once the link is up (provided that the link is stable) The connection should just appear as an ethernet cable (just slower dependant on the distance)

To set this up you flick the thing into Bridge mode, add the opposite ends MAC to each end and add some security (if you want any).
that should be all.

Regards
Andrew

Cheers Andrew,
Thought that was the case.
Might need to look a bit deeper.

Andy

Hi,

Have you got your link up and running? Have you set this up as a Line of sight link with directional antenna? What kind of distance are you covering?

It could be something as simple as a crossover on the cat5 depending on what your plugging into - not familiar with tech on the Linksys if has auto sense.

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Hi all,
I did get this working, and it works a treat!
I am using two Linksys WAP54g's (version 2's) soley as a wireless bridge, with network traffic going over the link to our lan, while web traffic is routed to an ADSL modem/firewall.
I'm using the standard aerials and over a 45.385m LOS distance (we have a lazer range finder at work... way cool!! ) with WPA shared key, SSID broadcast disabled, it is working well.
Netstumbler is unable to detect the link (obviously).
Only thing is, there is no way to see what the link speed is between the 2 ends of the bridge (unless I manually time a data transfer) as there is no reporting option in the AP's configuration interface.
If it appears too slow (doesnt at the mo), some better directional aerials would probably solve that.

Andy

Hi

The AP's at the budget end do not always come with monitoring - check the manufacturers web site for upgrades to the firmware.

As for the speed issue could be many things local factors. Start with checking your cables and connections, you maybe getting a bit of loss on the aerial cable, some on your connections and this is not compensated for with the antenna (what is your power like for spikes etc). Longer the aerial cable the more the loss, more connections you have more loss you can get this back somewhat with a Yagi for instance - maybe over kill but does make your link more stable.

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Laser2laser.co.nz
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