>> Should I need only one wireless card in my router to connect to both >> the clients and a wireless bridge which is connected to the WAN? > > I think you need 2 cards in your router (one as host and one as client > to the wireless WAN bridge), unless you use WDS.
Got it, thanks Paul. That's good news because it means I can use any 802.11n PCIe 300Mbps card with Linux drivers instead of worrying about AP mode. I'll just use a 802.11g card in AP mode until there is better support for 802.11n. The router uses most of the bandwidth from the WAN. - Grant > WDS allows your access points to become repeaters while still > functioning as access points, so you can have multiple APs and only > one of them needs to be connected to the wired network (as long as > each AP is within range of at least one other AP). > > The cost of WDS this is that your available bandwidth is basically > halved (and if you have to support 802.11b, it gets even slower). > Depending on your expected usage, that might or might not be a big > deal.
