Re: need wireless connection between modem & router

"Bill M." wrote:
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:

I have a Linksys wireless router, model no. WRT54GS, v.7.
I have a desktop, a laptop, and a printer connected to the router
via cat 5 cables running10Mb Ethernet. The router also connects
to a cable modem via cat 6 cable running 10Mb Ethernet. I want
to move the router, desktop, laptop, and printer upstairs in my condo.
The cable modem must remain downstairs where the coaxial cable
terminates because of difficulties in running a cable upstairs. (Please
just believe me.) The problem is how to link the cable modem to
the router by wirelessly simulating an Ethernet cable. Is there
a device (or devices) that can do this?

*TimDaniels*

1. Leave the modem and wireless router where they are; configure the
laptop for wireless operation and (as a test) carry it upstairs to
where the equipment would likely reside. How is the signal
strength/quality?


The signal reaching the laptop upstairs is excellent and the speed
measured via the SpeakEasy.com website is the same as that of
the wired connection, i.e. 5.8Mbps. Wireless would provide a
solid connection from the livingroom to the bedroom directly
above.


If good, then pick up a wireless router that can run dd-wrt firmware,
(I'm partial to the Linksys WRT54GL, but the dd-wrt website lists
many supported models), which you would configure as a 'wireless
client bridge'. The wireless router downstairs would be the Access Point,
and the wireless router upstairs would be the client. The client connects
to the AP and shares the connection via its 4 LAN ports.


Does that mean that the only way to provide a wireless bridge
between the wireless router upstairs and the modem downstairs
is to flash a wireless router with 3rd-party firmware?
I'd be willing to do it if that were the only way and I could find
another router cheap on Ebay, but there would be a learning curve
that I may not be able to afford.


2. If the above is not an option, consider some flavor of power line
networking. I believe you can pick up a pair of devices for about $80.
Advantages are that the connection is still wired, no cables of any
kind have to be run, and you're not relying on wireless.

--
Bill

Siemens Speedstream powerline ethernet adaptors got some good
comments. Retail price is $99, and Amazon is out of stock and there
aren't any listed on Ebay, and Nextag doesn't list them, either. Since
I'd need 2 of them, that might be too pricey a solution.
Amazon is selling a Linksys powerline ethernet bridge, but there's no
information about it on the Linksys website. I keep reading about
flakiness of Powerline products and their slow real world data rates,
and it makes wireless more attractive.

*TimDaniels*



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