Re: device to wirelessly simulate Ethernet?

"DevilsPGD" wrote:
"Timothy Daniels" wrote:

If so, what you need is an access point (not a router) that can operate
in client mode.


I am trying to simulate the ethernet connection between the modem
and the router, not between the router and the devices. The setup
that I have now - with an ethernet cable between the modem and
the router, and only occasional wireless use between the router
and the laptop - works fine. I just want to move all the devices upstairs
and leave the modem downstairs. I DON'T want to leave the router
downstairs with the modem. So the term, apparently, is "access point".
Have you a manufacturer and model no. that I could look up to
see how those things are configured and how much they cost?

I'm running an Apple's Airport Extreme here, although I'm using it
entirely as a wireless bridge, it sits inside my firewall/router.

I went with Apple's products because they were the only vendor offering
802.11n in the 5.8GHz band at a reasonable price at the time.

Apple's products do the trick reasonably well, although the
configuration software is horrible and Apple still hasn't managed to get
a web based interface working.

Before that I was using a WAP54G in client mode.

The easiest solution is to put the router at the modem, the access point
client goes upstairs and connects to a switch, all your devices connect
to that switch.


How about using the WAP54G as a Wireless Repeater as diagrammed
here:
http://linksys.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/linksys.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=4200

The existing WRT54GS would stay downstairs connected via ethernet
cable to the modem, and the WAP54G would be upstairs connecting
to the desktop and printer via ethernet cable and to the laptop wirelessly.
Do you think that would work? The WAP54G sells on Ebay at prices
I could afford, and only one of them would be needed.

*TimDaniels*


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