Wireless Bridging?

[khrall]

I need some help with this one.

My house is currently changing from a lad's pad to a home, aka the misses is moving in.

My phone line comes in the back of the house to the dining room and currently connects via my router directly to my pc's + console. As part of this moving in process, my boys toys are all being religated to the spare bedroom at the front of the house, upstairs.

I don't fancy shelling out for various wireless cards, so I'm wanting to set up a wireless bridge. I'm on O2 and have the Wirelessbox II and I also have an older Netgear DG834Gv3 from my previous ISP.

Is there any way to set the Netgear up as a wireless bridge?
If not can anyone recommend a solution, be it a cheap router I can set up/flash to support bridging or would a 4 port wireless print server be the only option?

I'm looking for the cheapest wireless solution possible (all my money is currently going on redecorating and I don't want ugly wires!)

Any help would be appreciated, cheers.

 

[WJA96]

85Mbps powerline would work very well. For true wireless bridging I've always found I needed an identical unit to the first one.

I've had very good success with the Broadcom chipset in the Buffalo 125Mbps wireless bridging routers.

 

[khrall]

After a few hours of messing about, I'm managed to get the DG834Gv3 acting as a wireless access point with the O2 wireless box acting as the main router

The way I did it, incase anyone else is looking for the same info.

1.) Log in to Netgear.
2.) Turn off Internet Connection.
3.) Select Advanced Wireless Settings, Enable Wireless Bridging and Repeating, Repeater with Wireless Client Association, MAC address details of O2 Router in Remote MAC Address 1, Apply.
4.) Select Wireless Settings, Checked "Enable Wireless Access Point" and "Allow Broadcast of Name (SSID)" were enabled. Entered WEP Key from O2 box.
5.) Clicked on "Setup Access List" next to "Wirless Station Access List", checked "Turn Access Control On" and added the O2 box to the "Trusted Wireless Stations".
6.) Select LAN IP Setup, Set IP address to 192.168.1.1, untick "Use Router as a DHCP Server", Apply.
7.) Turned off DHCP on 2nd PC and set to static address of 192.168.1.X (less that 64), subnet 255.255.255.0, gw 192.168.1.254, dns 192.168.1.254.
8.) Logged on O2 wireless box from PC1, Home Network, Wireless, Configure, Allow New Devices: (via registration)
9.) Configure WDS, Scan for wireless accesspoints, tick WDS, apply.

I still need to try and get DHCP working over the bridge, but for tonight I'm happy

...and a big thanks to http://www.unix.ms/netgear/

 

[khrall]

Been running a simple ping test for 10 hours on it, 6% loss, average 2ms, highest 932ms.

Not happy with the results, so I'll probably look at the Homeplug solution.

I've seen there are 85mbps and 200mbps versions. Anyone have any ideas how the 85mbps are with gaming/streaming? Or are the 200mbps ones preferred?

 

[PaulyD]

Either will be fine for the most part, 200mbps will only really be needed if trying to stream hi-def material