What Product Do I Need? Access Point?

NickM · 22 Jul 2007 at 05:17

At uni I'm either going to have internet via wifi or an ethernet connection.
I want to be able to access the internet, my NAS device and my network printer all wirelessly from my laptop.

To do this am I right in thinking I'll need a wireless access point such as the Linksys WAP54G?
Thanks

tolien · 22 Jul 2007 at 10:17

Unless the provider's going to be dishing out IPs for all those devices, and you want them all to be publically available, a router would be a better option, like the WRT54GL.

NickM · 22 Jul 2007 at 15:05

Ok, cheers

NickM · 24 Jul 2007 at 23:28

I would also like to extend the range of my wireless network at home, would the WRT54GL be able to do this? I currently have a Linksys WAG354G ADSL modem.

tolien · 24 Jul 2007 at 23:52

They both do WDS and the WRT54GL has detachable antennae, so there's no reason why you couldn't.

NickM · 25 Jul 2007 at 00:22

How would I go about setting this up? Anything special I have to do on either device? Or do I just set them to use the same SSID, WPA key and channel?
Thanks

tolien · 25 Jul 2007 at 00:55

You'll need to set them up to use WDS, and AFAIK the Linksys firmware won't do WPA over WDS - the manual is your friend.

NickM · 25 Jul 2007 at 02:41

Thanks for all the info