Howdy, I apologize for asking about something so simple. I am up against a time crunch.
I have a client who wants to extend his home network connection from his downstairs office to his wife's upstairs office. Wiring in their home is pretty shoddy. He already has a Linksys WRT54G on his DSL. He has a lot of resistance to wireless. He has seen wireless connections that are not reliable even a few feet away and he broke his first and only laptop card shortly after getting it. I can't convince him to get a simple wireless adapter for her computer. I had planned on doing HomePNA but for a number of reasons that didn't work. I really don't think he will go for a client adapter. That would be my choice. If it were up to me I would use a USB client adapter, but I tried to sell the idea and got nowhere. I did get him to go for the idea of a bridge for the upstairs office. I googled and found plenty of references to WRT54Gs doing WDS. I figure if you can do WDS you must be able to bridge, right? Now that I have one for him I am only finding sites that are using hacked firmware. While I do that sort of thing in my own network I don't want to put in a kludge for a twice a year client who lives an hour away. So what do I do now? I am supposed to set this up tomorrow. Whatever I need will have to be available at Fry's (or another local store.) Does anyone know a good and cheap bridge that I can buy locally in Palo Alto/Menlo Park? I'm annoyed that bridges cost so much more than routers. That seems wrong. Has anyone used the Netear WEG101? What about using the Linksys Wireless-G game adapter (WGA54G.) I saw posts saying people couldn't get it to work but I don't see why. I'm really just looking for a media converter to go from 10bT to Wi-Fi. Does such a thing exist for less than $100? How can I get a WRT54G to be a plain old bridge? Thanks in advance, Dan -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
