wireless router

Ok, I got a linksys wireless G router. Is there anyway i can use this as a signal booster or repeater from another wireless connection that I can get in one part of my apartment, but not the other?

thanksssss

Generally, the answer to this question seems to be NO. Wireless Access Points are designed to allow computers to share a connection to the internet via a modem immediately attached to the WAP, not act as bridges.

I have sort of the same situation as you, and did a bunch of Googling on it a little while back. Situation: we had to move the modem and router to my roommate's bedroom, so now I have to go wireless (it was in my room before, so I was just connected right to it at 100mb with ethernet cables.) One of my computers is USB 1.1 (with a wireless B adapter) which means it's DAMN SLOW over the network using my wireless adapter. Now, I happen to have an extra access point laying around, and I did not want to go out and buy either a wireless networking PCI card, or a USB 2.0 expansion card and a wireless G adapter -- instead I wanted to just hook MY two computers up to the extra WAP, and have it in turn act as a wireless G bridge to the primary one. As I previously noted, the answer I seemed to mostly come across was a negative. However, I don't know if something like this might address our situations -->

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=36&threadid=1513386&frmKeyword=&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear


It would make sense that you could use these things as basically a bridging switch if you wanted to. Of course, obviously the networking companies have a vested interest in that NOT happening so as to avoid conflicting product usages (why pay $50 for a lousy USB network adapter for one PC, when you could just get a WAP that gives you four ports to plug into.)

It may complicate things having to deal with a second firewall in the mix, but I guess that's the price you pay for trying to circumvent the product's intended use. :p I might just try this myself.

actually there is a relay booster for the wireless g. compusa has them for just that, so you can send the signal a little farther in your house

here's one they have
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=316578&pfp=SEARCH

and they do have others

Signal releaters are specific to each Manufacturer and Model, contact your local computer store for more info, pretty much as circeseye says.

tengu...i didnt get it to work :( I think it has to do with not getting a good connection to the main router. I bought a longer ethernet cable to I can place it better when i get home tonight. I'm also thinking about getting those big as anntenna upgrades. what do u think about those??

I think I got the client to connect to the main router because I got a mac address (one of the steps in the link you sent me). But when I tried to ping it, it timed out. btw, i have no idea what pinging means and i went to command prompt and i typed in ping 192.168.1.1.

My internet explorer or aim wouldnt work either. I'm hoping this is just due to a bad connection that can be circumvented by a longer cable. this is gonna be soooo sweet it if ends up working.

The MAC address is the address of the physical networking hardware in your computer - your normal ethernet card and your wireless card both have their own MAC address, this doesn't mean you are connected.

As I said before, you need to get a signal repeater specific to your wireless router.

What are you getting stuck with? Maybe we can help or offer alternatives.

Sweeeeet, it works. Oz, I basically followed the directions on that link tengu gave.

I basically wanted to use my router to connect to another wireless router's network. It's a really sweet deal and the router has a hell of a lot better reception than my wireless card.

So now, all the ports and shit are set (i don't know JACK about networking). Unfortunately, due to the distance of where i am getting the signal from, my connection drops a lot. I'm going to get those big ass antennas for my router tomorrow. Hopefully, that'll be good enough and i wont have to spend the cash for the booster.

:thumbsup: Awesome. I'm glad you got it working mate.

ok, i got the big ass antennas and the wireless range expander. i can put the router inside the apt now and have it work AND it is much fast and a more reliable connection. i havent really moved the expander a lot and i will experiment with it to get it better. thanks everyone.