On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 04:33:28PM -0700, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:46, Charles Curley wrote: > > The other two will go in my office and lab. The one in the lab will > > handle computers there via wired connections. The connection to the > > ISP is in my office. One question is, can I route the lab traffic to > > the Internet via the two wireless routers? Nothing in the manuals I've > > seen clearly indicates whether I can do this or not. > > You're right, the manual is not clear. It should state that it is *not* > possible to link two access points using the standard firmware.
Thanks. That rather kills it for what I want to do. Are there any other solutions less expensive than running the cable? I also want a wireless kit for my laptop(s), so I'll probably buy some sort of 802.11g router and card. Hmmm, I suppose instead of a second WRT54G in the lab, I could stick a PCI 802.11g card into one of the lab computers and have it route for the lab. Would that work? But that's more expensive than buying a second WRT54G. Gnrrrr. > > I have gotten it to work, though, between a wrt54g and an actiondec dsl > modem but it didn't work all that well for me and I don't recommend it. > I had to enable client mode on the wrt54g which disables any access > point features. That feature isn't available on the standard firmware. I > upgraded to the Sveasoft firmware for that reason. That's what I'd like to avoid. I don't want to add the cost of doing so (my time) to the cost of the router. Plus, the AP to AP routing is for production use. > > The connection was flakey. It would give out every so often and I > couldn't figure out why. Arp requests on the actiontec side would go > unanswered. I don't know if it was the actiontec or the linksys. I ended > up dragging a cable across the house instead. > > There is another option, WDS repeater mode. The Samadhi firmware I am > running doesn't support it and I didn't bother looking any further since > the Actiontec doesn't either. From what I gather, that's the proper way > to link two APs. The latest Sveasoft firmware does support it and I > believe the ewrt firmware does too. > > Corey > Thanks. > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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