[wplug] [OT] - Wireless network
Chris Romano
romano.chris at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 09:13:17 EDT 2004
Sorry for the OT post but I was hoping that some one on the list has
the same problem that I am having. Oh, and was able to find a good
solution.
My house is an older house, so there are only two phone jacks in it.
One upstairs in the master bedroom and one downstairs. I have my DSL
modem, router/switch, and WAP setup in the bedroom. This is fine, I
can use my Laptop to surf and what not. Now here is the problem. My
desktop is in my "office" which doesn't have access to a phone line or
network cable. I want that room to have access to my network, but
putting a phone line in there to hook up the modem, router, and WAP
will not work. The easy solution to this problem would be to buy a
Wireless NIC for my desktop, but I don't want to have to do that. Two
reasons are I am build a second machine and I want to play with other
OSes on my current once the new one is done. Some OSes such as
OpenBSD really don't have good Wireless support (if any). I would
prefer to have a wired net in there. So how do I tie them in?
Am I going to have to buy a WAP/Router/Switch combo, and not setup the
external interface? I am not that familiar with wireless products so
forgive the ignorance.
Thanks,
Chris
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