Re: Wireless Bridge?

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:23:09 GMT, Spender <Spender@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I hope someone can help me with an interior decorating problem. ;)

My new apartment has the cable outlet in an odd place, and it looks like
the cable provider won't be able to move it. Because of the setup, that is
where the television will go.

So I need to set up my desk and computers on the opposite wall. I'd rather
not run 50 ft. of cable around the perimeter of the room, and across two
main walkways.

How about:
* Under the carpet (with special cable)
* Behind the baseboards

I currently have:

Motorola SB5100 Cable Modem
Linksys BEFSR41 Router
Linksys 5 port Gigabit Switch
4 systems with gigabit ethernet cards, and 1 notebook I've been using with
ethernet.

Obviously I don't want to go wireless on each system since that would
defeat the purpose of the gigabit network.

Can I bridge two WAP's so that I can have the modem and one WAP connected
to the cable jack, and another WAP connected to the router? The internet
connection is only 5 Mb/s, so good WAP's should mean that I would notice no
degradation in speed.

What you want is:
* Cable Modem connected to the WAN port of a Wireless Access Point (WAP)
or of a Wireless Router configured as an Access Point.
* Wireless Client Bridge connected to the WAN port of the Wired Router.

I've worked with WAP's before (I have a Linksys WAP sitting in a box
somewhere that I've had no use for lately), but never bridging them, so I
might not even understand what it means. For instance, if the WAP's are
bridged can I ever connect the notebook via wireless?

If anyone has any suggestions on how to solve my problem with no loss in
speed I would appreciate it.

You can't bridge with two WAPs -- they won't talk to each other -- you
need a Wireless Client Bridge (also known as Wireless Ethernet Bridge).

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