Re: wireless network to wireless network??

At least for my requirement if one
box or another fails it is no biggie other then rounding up a replacement
for the failed part

Yep, I trolled for a few spare WRT54G units off fleabay and now have a decent supply of replacements should anything actually fail. Which, to my pleasant surprise, has not been the case.

Now to the point, I hadn't considered two DD-WRT boxes, but that is indeed
a clear option. Do you know of a more 'compact' solution. What I was
envisioning, though this appears to not be an option, was stick one of
those USB wireless receivers on the end of a usb cable and have it hooked
into a wireless router via the WAN port or similar connect point.

I suppose it might be possible with some of the WRT-based units that have USB ports. They generally use the port for network attached storage. But since it's just linux there's not much to prevent using it for a wifi device. Trouble would be getting the driver configured properly. That and it would not be configurable from the web UI. You'd have to use the command prompt via ssh or telnet, and then know the right IP routing setup info. A bit more of a hassle than you might think.

Thanks again though for reminding me of the obvious solution though a bit
'large'. I feel silly not thinking about two DD-WRT devices. Like I said I
was just hoping for something smaller and more portable. But you gotta do
what you gotta do.

What's the driving need for it to be small and portable? I'm not arguing against it, rather just curious.

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