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Roland0

Roland0

Roland0

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Hello Peeps.

Well long story short, my Master socket has stopped working, and the last couple of times this has happened BT have been called, and it ended up costing £300. I tried the test socket and it worked, it also gave me a 3Mb speed boost over the extension I was previously using (nice internal wiring!)

Anyhow, I was looking at getting a gigabit switch to improve the speeds between the datastore / file-server I have with my ESXi box and also my PC. Now that i cant use the switch inbuilt in the I thought that this was a perfect excuse to buy a Linksys WRT54GL and flash it with the tomato firmware, and uplink it to a gigabit switch. Besides using a crossover cable, is there anything that I need to know when setting this up? If anybody has done this before what's the reliability of the connection like? Is tomato easy to setup?

I would just like to hear some peoples experience of using a wireless ethernet bridge.

Thanks!:)
 
Hmm, I didn't think modern devices needed crossover cable, since the advent of auto-sensing years ago?
 
To what ends, what are you bridging to? The last couple of lines of your post were a bit garbled!

Is this to link your stuff connected to your new GigE switch to the internet via your router downstairs using a wireless link?

Tomato is pretty straightforward and adds a lot of extra features, such as wireless bridging.

You really don't need to use a crossover cable, I'd expect anything you're using would do Auto MDI-X, though I suppose there is nothing wrong with doing things "properly".

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As for "whats the reliability like" well how long's a piece of string? Too many variables, do you live in a densely populated area with 100's of neighbors with their own wireless networks?

Get a good signal, and generally things are pretty stable. Latency will be a bit more jittery than on a wired connection and you may get the odd bit of packet loss.
 
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You won't need a cross-over cable as people have said. Networking equipment has long being able to auto-detect. It's only when your connecting up two PCs together directly that you'd really need one.
 
Hey,

Sorry the post was a bit garbled I had to do it quickly whilst I was at work. Thanks for the info on the crossover cable, I thought Auto-MDIX was a feature on managed switches!

Yes wij you are correct, I simply need to connect a gigabit switch upstairs with the router downstairs, wires are out of the question and its cheaper than a homeplug.

Ok, i understand asking about reliability is a silly thing to do, but its about 10ft away from the router, it just has a floor in the way.

Really I was just wondering if there was any caveats to doing such a thing before is pent the cash just to find out that it would only work in leap years or something :) any help is appreciated thanks!
 
Stoned_SpaZZZ said:
Really I was just wondering if there was any caveats to doing such a thing before is pent the cash just to find out that it would only work in leap years or something :) any help is appreciated thanks!
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I guess at the end of the day it's not as reliable as a wire, though generally it should be alright.
 
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