Linksys WET-11 does the trick and is about $100 http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=22&prid=432
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Wright > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] bridging help > > 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 > > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
