Got a question linking wireless routers

[Esquire]

I'm in an apartment, my dad/moms house is 15 feet away

I use a belkin pre-n router my step moms compy gets 70% sig its good to go, now question.

I set up a mce pc 4 dad, need to get him hooked up to net work

his pc has more objest in the way

i could give him a wireless router, would that talk to my belkin?

I'm a networking meatball

 

[JackMDS]

Pre-N is Not WDS so it will not talk to another Router.

You need to get a Driverless 802.11g Card (it is the same type as the Game Box cards).

You can plug this card to a switch or a regular port on a second Wireless Router to allow few computers connecting with Wire and or Wireless at the second location.

These two pages contain the principle of the setting but you have to extrapolate to your specific setting.

Wireless Network - Configuration Modes.

Using a Wireless Cable/DSL Router as a Switch with an Access Point

:sun:

 

[Esquire]

thanks jack

i searched to froum but didn't find anything

thanks

 

[fredserv]

If you just need to connect your Dad's PC to your Mom's network, just get a USB wireless adaptor 80211.g. I used the Robotics MAXg model 5421 because you can survey broadcast network nearby to see your mom's router SSID for easy connection. BUt if your Dad has few devices to be connected to a router, you need a wireless bridge to hook him up to your mom's network. You can also use like the one I have and it's made by Buffalo, it's the ethernet converter. It's similar to the wireless bridge or game bridge functionality wise and very easy to setup. Good luck

 

[Madwand1]

First question -- do you want your father's computer to connect wirelessly, or can it connect with a wire to your mother's computer? If the latter, then there's probably a simple solution with Windows internet connection sharing.

Alternatively, you can achive the same end result (a little more cleanly) with a wireless bridge such as the Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server (ignore the print server part for now). It can connect as a client to your wireless network, and pass through that connection to your mother's and father's computers via standard network cables.

Ideally, you'd use a wireless-n device with bridge capability that's compatible to your pre-n wireless device, but I don't know of any that can do this at this point.

The Linksys WRT54G is famous for its third-party firmware, several of which including DD-WRT are capable of providing this wireless client/bridge functionality. The new Linksys pre-n device has also released its firmware source code publicly, so we'll probably be able to get wireless bridge functionality from third-party developers if not the manufacturers themselves.