Just got an email from a friend...HOW TO?

[etrin]

f I have a wireless router, I know I can plug some Ethernet cables into the router AND use the wireless network connection through the router.
But what if I have an Ethernet device (like a printer or a NAS) that requires a WIRED Ethernet connection, but I want to use it in another part of the house (away from my router) ?
Can I do something like buy another router and somehow connect it to the home network wirelessly so I can have some Ethernet ports across the house?
Or is there some other solution for this (short of running an ehternet cable across the house). Is this what is called a wireless ?hub? ?

For the 1 device what should he purchase?

Future what should he put there if he may use more than 1 device?

thank you for any help

 

[Jamsan]

You have the idea down, but it's called a wireless bridge.

Check out the following article: http://www.ezlan.net/bridging.html

You can setup a second AP to act as a bridge in another part of the house and you can then hook a switch up to that bridge and get additiona ports out of it (if it's a router converted to act as a bridge, it'll already have the 4 LAN ports which you can use)

 

[n0cmonkey]

I use a Buffalo router with dd-wrt as a wireless bridge. Bonus of using a wireless router is they seem to be cheaper than wireless bridges.

 

[etrin]

so to get this done cheaply it would probably be cheaper just to buy another wireless router. They can be picked up on sale very cheap now.
Is there a how to on getting 2 wireless routers to play nice together for what he is wanting to do?

ps I have to tell him to make sure the router can be switched into bridged mode...so I assume that all are not able to do this.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I wasn't able to do it out of the box with my buffalo, I had to flash dd-wrt onto it.