Peter Rundle wrote:
Jeff Waugh wrote:
What you ought to have done (sorry), is buy an access point to connect to
your switch (or even to replace it), and configure the wireless bridge as a
client to the access point.
Yes it's working in ad-hoc mode, (no I didn't read anywhere in the literature where it said that this would work but with serverly degraded performance) :-(
Not to worry we can probably stretch the budget to include an access point and deploy the second bridge in another location.
A wireless bridge is most often useful when you have an ethernet-enabled
device, such as a printer, gaming console or old computer, that can't be
upgraded to support wifi (for a normal desktop computer, you'd just get a
CardBus or PCI adapter).
In this case the remote point is in another building and the said computer will change from time to time so rather than hassle with swaping and changing PCI cards and loading drivers I figured that the wireless bridge was the easy thing to do.
Thanks for the info, makes sense but somewhat annoying.
P.
Hmm. I purchased a few weeks ago, three Dlink DWL2000AP+'s and POE's (DWL-P100) and Antenna' for the purpose of linking up three buildings. I intended for them to operate in 'Multipoint Bridge' mode. Up until now we have the locations linked up via ISDN and using 3 subnets. The sad thing though is that the said units operating in any of their supported modes, will not route packets between networks (Or even subnets). They are only BRIDGES. Even the Linksys WRT54G Wireless Router, (without linux firmware) will not route as I need. Machines at the remote locations can access the main network, but machines at the main network cannot access machines over the wireless network unless that machine first access the machine on the main network. What this means: The print servers at the remote buildings are useless with the current wireless setup.
I have a few WRT54G's on order, I will also have to build new POE regulators. The DWL-P100 injects about 42v - 48v into the eth, and the remote regulator outputs 5v, the WRT54G v1 and v1.1 both use 5v but the v2 (which is the only one I can get now) uses 12v.
Lesson?
I dunno either.
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