On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 12:02 +0000, Amos Shapira wrote: > I'm after a wireless access point. I saw the D-Link DI524 for a good > price but also the that D-Link 604T can give the same functionality > plus ADSL2+ modem for a little more money (I currently use an ADSL1 > modem on an ADSL2+ plan).
Any standard LAN/Wireless router can physically act as an access-point, though not all internal software will let you do that. Optimally you would be able to turn off the NAT that the router is doing between the LAN/Wireless and the WAN port so it would act like an expensive switch. But I have yet to see a built-in router operating system that let you do that. I've successfully used generic WRT54G routers in this capacity by turning off the DHCP service for the local LAN and plugging the outgoing LAN cable into one of the LAN ports, but if you get a WRT54GL (or WRT54G v4 or older) then you can install a third-party operating system that will probably let you do anything you want. I'm using DD-WRT which has a very similar interface to the default Linksys operating system (its based on it) although its much prettier, and in the main wireless configuration page it has a "mode" setting where one of them is "access point". It doesn't get much simpler then that. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
