[wplug] [OT] - Wireless network

[Chris Romano]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:46:46 -0400, Dave Tremel <djtremel at zbzoom.net> wrote:
> Chris Romano wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> You going to want a wireless bridge. The bridge will connect to your
> wireless network and give you a network port to plug in to. These are
> mostly used for gaming consoles since they don't have the ability to use
> a regular wireless network device.
> 
> Netgear makes one.
> http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WGE111.php
> 
> Linksys also makes one which you can look up on their site.
> 

I think that's exactly what I am looking for.  I would prefer this
over setting up an old machine.  It's smaller, less noisie, consumes
less power, and easier to setup.  Oh, my WAP and Router/Switch is
netgear so this fits perfectly.

Thanks,
Chris