[wplug] [OT] - Wireless network

[Chris Romano]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:12:53 -0400, Richard Farina
<r.farina at adelphia.net> wrote:
> At 09:13 AM 10/22/2004, you 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.
>
>
> Most "access points" as in not routers, have the ability to connect to
> another access point and feed the network out the cat5 port.  That could
> build the bridge you are looking for.
> 
> Or just a linux box if you know how to bridge connections.

On that note I checked out netgear's website.  Their WAP does have a
"Bridge" mode and it's cheaper then the game adapter.  This is
actually the same WAP that I am currently using.

Thanks,

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WG602.php