Right, I have got BT Broadband with a Belkin Wireless G+ MIMO Modem Router (F5D9630uk4A) and this is sitting in the spare bedroom where the DSL point is, along with a couple of devices plugged in via ethernet. In my front room I have an HTPC and a PS3 which wirelessly connect to the Modem Router. This all works fine, but I want to have my PC and PS3 hardwired together, for media streaming.
Now I picked up a cheap Belkin Wireless G+ MIMO Router (F5D9230uk4) and was under the impression that I could wirelessly bridge these two routers together and then hardwire my HTPC and PS3 into the second router. Now the second router has an option to 'Operate as an Access Point', so I selected this and made sure that it had an IP address on the same subnet as the ADSL router (192.168.2.x) and that the channel number, encryption details and SSID all matched. I connected to the ADSL router and selected 'Wireless Bridge Mode' and manually entered the MAC address of the Access Point. The trouble is they do not seem to be communicating at all.
Is my logic fatally skewed here, I know normally a wireless access point is hardwired to a LAN and then offers wireless access to clients, but I assumed that it would operate the other way, if I bridged the ADSL router through to it.
If anyone has any ideas, they would be most gratefully received.
Cheers
JudgeC
Now I picked up a cheap Belkin Wireless G+ MIMO Router (F5D9230uk4) and was under the impression that I could wirelessly bridge these two routers together and then hardwire my HTPC and PS3 into the second router. Now the second router has an option to 'Operate as an Access Point', so I selected this and made sure that it had an IP address on the same subnet as the ADSL router (192.168.2.x) and that the channel number, encryption details and SSID all matched. I connected to the ADSL router and selected 'Wireless Bridge Mode' and manually entered the MAC address of the Access Point. The trouble is they do not seem to be communicating at all.
Is my logic fatally skewed here, I know normally a wireless access point is hardwired to a LAN and then offers wireless access to clients, but I assumed that it would operate the other way, if I bridged the ADSL router through to it.
If anyone has any ideas, they would be most gratefully received.
Cheers
JudgeC