Bridging or repeating a wireless router

Superman

Ok well to save me writing a load of mumbo jumbo up I drew a picture, its no picasso burt looking at the diagram i'm sure there is someone out there who has done the same thing before.

Thanks Guys.

bushy...

Do a bit of googling on wds (cheap way out but it receives/retransmits on same antenna = even more dismal performance than usual ) or get 2 boxes and link them, one to "receive" and the other to "retransmit" it ... youll need to space the channels far apart too though. irl_robins or munstercycling come up with good stuff about these situations ...

Superman

Thanks for the comment, but how did you come to that conclusion when ya didn't even look at the diagram!

Foxwood

You don't want a router in the B position, because it wouldn't act as a router unless it's WAN port was wireless. (And you don't want the hassle of getting data to go through 2 routers).

But off the top of my head I don't know of a wireless access point that has multiple ethernet ports to do what you want.

irlrobins

Yea you need an access point in place of router, but normally access points only come with a single ethernet port. So you would have to link ap to a switch or router. Becomes rather messy and expensive then.

I wonder if a wireless ethernet bridge into a router WAN port might work. What is distance between network a and network b?

Superman

yeah looking at it more and doing reading it does seem like there will be alot more traffic created by two routers and I do need a multiple port access point but the internet hasn't yieded many of them.
gonna look into a few other things as well.

Foxwood

Foxwood wrote:

But off the top of my head I don't know of a wireless access point that has multiple ethernet ports to do what you want.

I found one. The Netgear WGPS606 does exactly what you're looking for. It also includes a print server port, so you can share a printer on your network to share.

Elara has it for €105.31.

Elaa also has a more expensive Linksys device, the WET54GS5, which has 5 ports, and which sounds like it will do the job.

Other "wireless ethernet bridges", often sold as "wireless gaming adapters" will only support a single device at a time.

Superman

Thanks a million foxwood they are bought perfect devices, will probably go for the linksys device although netgear one is cheaper, time to start reading reviews i think!!

thanks

Foxwood

Superman wrote:

Thanks a million foxwood they are bought perfect devices, will probably go for the linksys device although netgear one is cheaper, time to start reading reviews i think!!

Yes, make sure you read up on it first - I just did some preliminary research on Google, so I can't guarantee that it does what you want.

Superman

Just want to report back that the Linksys WET54GS5, does the job perfectly, was able to get it at a cheaper price on dabs.com as a pre-owned item.
So far so good and can't complain that doesn't do everything it says it will!