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Can / How do I connect two wireless routers?

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grimlock2003

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The place I'm living currently has a wireless router (D-Link) giving us access to the Internet. This is fine for my 2 windows machines which have wireless nics, but I have two other computers that I use for testing that only have std. nics. These machines sometimes run windows and sometimes run Linux but need access to the web.

What's the easiest way to connect them to the wireless network for Internet access?

Can I buy another wireless router and have it get an address from the other wireless router so that I can just plug in the other two machines to the back? If so, this might be a good option since I plan on moving soon and buying a wireless router anyway. This way I don't have to buy any extra wireless nics, etc. that I may not need later down the road.

The other options I've looked at are buying a bridge (so it will work with any OS) or using ICS (which is a poor choice since none of the machines is on all the time).

Of course none of these may be a good idea. In that case, suggestions are more than welcome.
 
I'd suggest the wireless bridge. Of course, depending on the one you get, that might only give you one ethernet port. Personally, I would get a wireless bridge and then a switch. Hook the bridge up to the switch, and then plug in your computers. If you did a lot of transferring of files between your computers, I'd hook all 4 up to the switch, just for faster transfer rates. Wireless is still much slower of a LAN.
 
That was something I was going to ask. The bridges I was looking at only had one port, and I didn't know if I could connect a hub/switch. If so, that is defintly the way to go.
 
Get a Driverless Client Bridge (Like Linksys WET11).

Plug it to a Switch/Hub, and you are connected.

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