I've tried various consumer level wireless bridges and my opinion is they all suck. If you do find a good one let me know. I've had much better luck with devices runing OpenWRT and/or Tomato. I tried DD-WRT as well, but things would just stop working without a daily router reboot. Installed Tomato on the same hardware, issue went poof. I haven't looked back. For sharing broadband, I don't see any reason why a wireless bridge wouldn't work unless you live in an apartment where the spectrum is extremely crowded. Don't stay on Channel 6. You'll hit the bandwidth limitations of your cable modem before you hit the bandwidth limits of 802.11G. Just plug the bridge into your existing switch and you're on the Internet. I've heard (word of mouth) that some devices (Linksys WRT54GL) can't process things quickly enough to fully utilize a fast broadband connection. It's not something I've run into or seen anything solid on though. If you do run into it, the same word of mouth sources report that Apple's AirPort Extreme can deal with it just fine. And an AirPort Express will operate in bridge mode so you can get your gear from the same vendor. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090406/376eb418/attachment.htm