Dave Carlson wrote: > I bought two Asus wireless bridges (WL-330g) for $50 each to use with a > WRT54G; they've worked great. One is connected to a switch (with 'clone mac > address' off), it works well as a wireless bridge. It can also work in > access point mode. > > I've tried wireless bridging with WRT54Gs, and it hasn't worked near as well > as the Asus bridge. > > -dave > dave, so, if I buy one of these, put it in the garage and plug it into my hub/switch for the garage network, it'll just work? thanks nick > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 17:26, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > >>Hey tclugers, >> I am wondering if someone can help me with what I assume is an easy >>problem. I have a network inside, where I am typing right now, and there >>are cat5 cables carefully hidden so that my parents house doesn't look >>what my mother would consider "bad looking." Anyway, I have a WRT54G for >>wireless access, and it also provides DHCP serving for this network. The >>Cable modem is hooked to this network obviously. Anyway, here's the deal: >> >>I want to connect the network I have in my garage (where I can have >>things look however I like, we don't park cars in the Garage we use it >>for storage, and also it's my test lab. Basically a whole hell of a lot >>of 486s, p90s, p100s, p200s, etc. Anyway, I want to connect the networks >>wirelessly so that the machines in the garage can get an address via >>DHCP and so that I can be inside in my nice comfy computer spot inside >>the house and ssh to the test machines without having to go to the garage. >> >>I have heard of possibly getting another WRT54G and turning off the dhcp >>server on that one and doing some sort of bridging mode thing. Any ideas >>there? >> >>I also have been thinking I would just get a pci 802.11g card, stick it >>and a pci nic into a p100 or so, and then have the g card grab an >>address and then... plug the cable from the pci nic into my hub in the >>garage and somehow run traffic that way. Anyway, I apologize if this is >>a stupid question, I am just really, really ready to connect the >>networks. Distcc could be a lot more fun if I add all those machines in >>the garage. :) >> >>Anyway, any thoughts out there? I'd really, really appreciate it. >> >>Thanks, >> >>nick >> >>------------------------------ >>nick thompson >> >>all unix all the time. >>------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- ------------------------------ nick thompson all unix all the time. ------------------------------