Wired to wifi

hornetstinger · 20 Feb 2018 at 20:40

How can you convert wired only devices - such as NAS's, squeezebox, PC's to wireless, printers, where that item is not close to switch/router? Because having dozen or more cables routed around the home isn't a possibility.

DIABLO · 20 Feb 2018 at 21:10

For the most part you can't, with the exception of PC's of course.

Caged · 20 Feb 2018 at 21:14

Get an access point that can be configured as a client, and connect it to a switch, connect your devices to this switch. Or do the same but with powerline if that's an option.

bremen1874 · 21 Feb 2018 at 00:20

Are all of the devices close together or spread all over the house?

Hades · 21 Feb 2018 at 00:54

It used to be possible to buy an ethernet wifi adapter; a wifi box which had an ethernet connection on the end. That's how early XBoxes, etc, could be connected to wifi.

hornetstinger · 21 Feb 2018 at 06:22

Nothing in place yet. But one squeeze will be in each room, computer in another, Nas's in one location.

BigT · 22 Feb 2018 at 20:03

You turn wired devices into wireless devices by using a wireless bridge. If you have many devices close together you can put them all on a ssitch and plug a wireless bridge into the same switch to make them all wireless with one bridge.

Rozzy85 · 24 Feb 2018 at 01:07

I did it using an old Linksys WRT54G loaded with custom firmware so it could operate in wireless bridge mode. You can then just plug in whatever wired device you like. I should think today you could get a cheap router than will either be capable of bridging out of the box or allow custom firmware that can but that's something you'd have to research yourself.