wireless router

[sameintheend01]

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

[tenguzero]

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/messagev...VIEWTMP=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. I might just try this myself.

[circeseye]

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/prod...578&pfp=SEARCH

and they do have others

[Oz]

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

[sameintheend01]

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.

[Oz]

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.

[sameintheend01]

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.

[Oz]

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

[sameintheend01]

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.