Re: terminology question
- From: "brain187" <brain187@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jan 2006 00:21:15 -0800
Steven Feil wrote:
> I am wanting to ascertain whether I can use my router in a particular
> way, however I have found it difficult to do a search because I
> unfamiliar with some WiFi terminology.
>
> I am interesting in relaying wi-fi to wi-fi signals.
>
> === wired connection ... wi-fi connection
>
>
> Among the many ways to relay a wi-fi signal I am interested in two in
> particular.
>
> It seems possible that a computer with two wi-fi NIC's could do it
> even if a single router could not. I read a web page where someone did
> something similar to METHOD 2 using two Linksys routers in place of
> Router2.
>
> Using the following text-diagram (fixed with font required)
>
> Internet ===== Router1 ......... Router2 ......Comp3
> . .
> . .
> Comp1 Comp2
>
>
> METHOD 1: In this mode when comp2 or comp3 requested an IP, Router2
> would pass the request over to Router1, then Router1 would assign the
> IP for Comp2 and Comp3. From then on Packets packets going ether way
> between the Internet and Comp2 Comp3 would pass through Router2 and
> Router2.
>
> METHOD 2: Router2 uses NAT. When Router2 is first turned on it request
> an IP from Router1. When Comp2 or Comp3 make a request for an IP# it
> is assigned a number by router2. From then on when Comp2 or Comp3 make
> a request for data Router1 sends treated that data as if it were
> destined to router2. It is Router2 that determines whether the data
> goes to Comp2 or Comp3
>
>
> I'm not sure if these types of wi-fi to wi-fi bridging have a name or
> not. From what I've read it seams that WDS is not exactly the same as
> method 1, because WDS use a vendor specific protocol is usually not
> work when Router1 and Router2 have different manufactures. In METHOD 1
> I would prefer to use standard IP protocol or tunneling.
>
> PS. in case anyone is interested, I will be placing the router in the
> house owned/build by my roommates fiancee who is the father of the
> person of the Internet connection. They don't want a lot of wires
> running around the house.
this is a realy easy thing to do ,but you didn't tell us the model of
the router!
if it is a linksys wrt54g or gs you will have no problem as long as it
is not a ver 5.
if it is a wrt54g or gs you can email me i will help you step by step
(even if ya only
buy one wrt54g or use another cheaper ap i could help ya. walmart sells
the thing for 49 bucks ya can't go wrong! before ya go shopping though
d/l the list of serial number that way ya don't end up with a ver 5
.
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