Wired to wifi

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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