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
>>
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