KlaymenDK;152887 Wrote: > I thought I had read somewhere that you could do LAN --cat5--> SB > ~~wlan~~> SB --cat5--> LAN, that would imply an SB could also send.
No. The SB has wireless bridge functionality as opposed to wireless access point functionality. Now I suppose to be fully accurate, a wireless bridge also sends signals, otherwise how could the bridged device have upload access, but it can only be associated with the originating AP and no other wireless device. That's the difference between it and a WAP, a WAP can be associated with any wireless device. But a bridge can't be used as the basis for an ad-hoc network. A WAP is a wireless router without a WAN port - it's a wireless switch that connects many devices together. A bridge only connects a wired LAN segment to a pre-existing wireless LAN (WLAN). If we were to use wired networking equivalents, a WAP would be a switch, connecting many devices, while a bridge would be a longer patch cord, connecting one device, although you could have a switch downstream of it. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29428 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
