Re: Connecting a wired router to a WAP?

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:01:59 -0600, Jeff K deJong
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I'm hoping someone out there much smarter than myself can help me out. At
the moment I currently have my home computers connected via ethernet
cables to a wired router which connects to my cable modem. Now
unfortunately I have the cable modem sitting on my computer desk on one
side of the room, and the cable outlet is on the other side of the room so
that means I have this cable running across the floor along the length of
the room. Now this is physically unacceptable, and I would very much like
to get rid of floor cables.

My current computer setup is one PC(dual boot linux/win98) and one iMac
attached to my wired router.

The trivial solution would be to buy a wireless router to place beside the
cable modem which would be beside the cable outlet on oneside of the room
and insert wireless cards into my desktop computers. The problem with this
is I don't know if my PC operating systems would like wireless cards, or
even where to find a wireless card for my wifes iMac. (ie that would mean
buying a router and two seperate wirelss cards, a little out of our
financies right now)

What I was hoping to do was to place a wireless router( or some other
wireless product) beside the cable outlet on the far wall, and some how
wirelessly connect it to my regular router which I have setting on my
computer table top.(I would like to utilize my regular router because I
know both of my computers work when plugged into it)

So my questions are
(a) is this physically possible?
(b) if so what would I need to buy to do it?

You could use a wireless access point next to the cable modem, and a
wireless client bridge next to your wired router. Powerline networking
would also work.

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