Will a wireless bridge work for me?

Minstadave · 26 May 2008 at 16:12

I'm trying to find a better way to wire up my room.

Current setup is NTL cable coming into my lounge and connected to my Netgear router.

In the study I've got 2 pcs and a 360, currenly my PC connects via a wifi adaptor and everything else isn't connected.

I wondered if I could get either a cheap router and run it in bridge mode, or a proper wifi bridge and connect everything to that, and then set the bridge to connect to my main router.

Does that actually work? Any recommendations hardware wise?

Jimathy · 27 May 2008 at 21:51

As long as you don't have too many thick walls in the way a couple of wireless access points in bridging mode would do the trick yes. They have to support 'Bridging' mode though. I know some of the Buffalo kit does.

You could also look at the Homeplug adaptors.

Minstadave · 27 May 2008 at 22:17

Yeah I thought about homeplugs, but a router would be cheaper.

Do you know if you need matching hardware or should any combination work?

Thanks

tolien · 27 May 2008 at 23:15

You shouldn't need matching hardware, so long as the bridge will work as a wireless client.

Minstadave · 27 May 2008 at 23:19

Nice I'll give it a try

Pumpkinstew · 30 May 2008 at 20:47

I hope you have better luck than me.
I just spent an afternoon trying to get two wireless routers to act like a wireless bridge and didn't get anywhere.

bledd · 30 May 2008 at 21:27

best bet, get 2x wrt54GL routers, put tomato firmware on them both, put first one straight into the cable, and put the wireless strength to max (this may be enough without the 2nd router!) if you need more, then set the other one to bridge mode

it's mega simple with those routers

tons of info & faq's here (probably won't need them)
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=160

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