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Amazed my Asus X38 has built in Access Point.

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Tempered81

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Just realized that my Asus P5E3 Deluxe wifi has a built in access point mode if you don't want to use the wifi client. So i set it to AP mode, and now have 3 laptops sharing wifi off of the motherboard, while the main PC uses the gigabit ethernet.

Pretty amazing. I'm sure this has been around for years now, but I've only recently stumbled upon it, and it's quite nice. Just thought I'd share.
 
That is pretty cool, did you have to plug in any type of mini card with antenna or is it fully integrated into the MB hardware? How's the range?
 
gramboh said:
That is pretty cool, did you have to plug in any type of mini card with antenna or is it fully integrated into the MB hardware? How's the range?
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Most come with a small add in card, but ive seen some that are built in, range is about the same as dedicated ap
 
gramboh said:
That is pretty cool, did you have to plug in any type of mini card with antenna or is it fully integrated into the MB hardware? How's the range?
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It's a small card with two antennae outputs. The card looks attatched to the motherboard via some proprietary socket (smaller than a pci-e 1x). Range is okay. It's no suped up triple anteana linksys wifi-g set-top router or anything, but it does the job. Now have 3 or 4 connections simultaneously, and it has Wifi-N AP software from asus that shows me who's connected and stuff. Its really neat, considering i had no idea this was included when I bought the motherboard... hehe.
 
Tempered81 said:
Just realized that my Asus P5E3 Deluxe wifi has a built in access point mode if you don't want to use the wifi client. So i set it to AP mode, and now have 3 laptops sharing wifi off of the motherboard, while the main PC uses the gigabit ethernet.

Pretty amazing. I'm sure this has been around for years now, but I've only recently stumbled upon it, and it's quite nice. Just thought I'd share.
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Agreed, cool. The funny thing here is that if you had posted, "Just realized my PC has another [ethernet port] that I can attach an AP to and share 3 laptops off" people would have responded "dual motherboard ethernet ports...what a waste...you'll never use dual bonding" (ignoring you had just described a use other than bonding).
 
well it has two ethernet ports and there are two lan connections in my windows connection manager, but it also has a dual antennae wifi card.

the wifi card itself is the one that does the client mode or access point. one of my ethernet ports has a wired connection to my cable modem, and the pc shoots out an access point for all portables nearby to mooch off my wired cable modem. hehe.
 
So it looks like you are connected directly to the Internet and use ICS as a Router.

Yeah it works, but personally I would not use such a configuration.

In these days and time connecting directly to the Internet with No Router inbetween is not very safe, ICS works but it is Not a very efficient solution.

In time when a simple Wireless Cable/DSL Router goes for so little. IMHO the saving does not merit the negatives.

BTW, almost any Wireless card can be made like an AP if One is running Win 7.

http://www.connectify.me/about.html


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