Re: need wireless connection between modem & router
- From: "Timothy Daniels" <SpamBucket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:49:20 -0800
"Elmo P. Shagnasty" advised:
"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?
Don't overthink this.
Simply make everything upstairs wireless--laptop, desktop, printer--
all of them.
Downstairs is the cable modem and the router. Great. But the
router is wireless only--nothing wired connects to it.
Upstairs is the laptop--connected wireless. The desktop--put a
wireless card in it. The printer--use a wireless to wired ethernet
adapter (you could use one of those for the desktop, too).
This way, each device can be ANYWHERE in the house, and
not tied to a physical location just because it has to wire into
something.
Wired to wireless adapter:
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WET54G
My major problem is financial. Making all the devices connect
wirelessly would involve buying and installing two wireless adaptors -
one for the desktop and one for the printer (and the printer will be
sitting right next to the desktop). The WET54G does look like a
proper candidate for the job of simulating the ethernet link, though.
What intrigues me is the idea of using a single WET54G (many are
sold on Ebay) for the link between the modem downstairs and the
WRT54GS wireless router upstairs. Could just one WET54G
form that connection with the WRT54GS router upstairs, or would
I need 2 WET54G's - one at the modem and another at the router?
Another alternative: while keeping your cable modem and router
downstairs, connect them to the house using powerline adapters:
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/PowerLine
Imagine plugging a wire from your router into the wall outlet, then
upstairs from your wall outlet into a small hub/switch. Then plug
laptop, desktop, printer into the small hub switch.
This way you get the benefit of hard wiring from downstairs to
upstairs, without running an actual network wire. Actually, you
get the benefit of having wired network products ANYWHERE
in the house.
Me, I'd just make everything wireless using the first method above.
Why complicate things.
Powerline ethernet adaptors might be the easiest way to go if
the upstairs wall outlets and the downstairs wall outlets are on
the same branch circuit. (I don't want to get into placing
capacitor bridges between branch circuits.) Another problem
is price - they don't appear much on Ebay, etc. as used devices,
and having to buy two units at retail would break the bank.
I'd definitely go with wireless if I could get away with just one
wireless ethernet adaptor, e.g. the Linksys WET54G, instead of
two.
*TimDaniels*
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