I'm doing this today with my main wireless gateway (happens to be a Checkpoint) and a WRT54GS running OpenWRT which bridges the network, it acts as a client on the wireless than its ethernet ports are simply bridged onto the network. So a system upstairs is connected via ethernet to it and gets an IP off of the wireless IP range, pretty slick. --j On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail.com> wrote: > I have a room in my apartment (let's call it the "office") that is about > 100' away from my cable modem. I have an 802.11g wireless router > connected to the cable modem. > > The office has three desktop computers wired to each other via a switch > (for sharing a printer), but they can't get to the internet. I could get > a very large length of CAT 5 or 6 cable, but that seems like a long way > to stretch ethernet cabling, and a potentially ugly addition to my > apartment (I can't drill and snake it through the walls). > > So, I'm thinking wireless. I *could* just get one wireless adapter for > each computer, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a networking device > that would basically talk 802.11g to the existing wireless router and > share internet with the three computers in the office (via the existing > office switch). I think this would basically be a wireless-to-wired > bridge. > > Maybe something like this D-Link DGL-3420: > http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=383 > Hard to be sure if it would work for my purposes. > > I know I can get a wrt54g or a dedicated computer to act as a bridge, > but I was looking for a more plug-and-play adapter with WPA support and > a little Web UI for configuring stuff like the wireless password. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090406/7d3810b8/attachment.htm