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New to wireless and need some help

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imported_hopeless

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I don't have any wireless going, just a wired router for internet sharing between two pc's and don't share any files between them.

I'm looking at getting wireless going so I can still have the two pc's wired and use wireless in the living room for my xbox 360. From what I've read it seems like I could get 2 Linksys WRT54GL routers, and replace the firmware in them. Putting one in the room with the pc's and modem and the other in the living room with the xbox. It looks like tomato and dd-wrt both would make this happen. Tomato appears to have a few more options for how the 2nd one would tie in, but I'm still attempting to grasp all the acronyms that are used.

Not sure if this part makes sense, but if possible I'd like to "lock" them together so the wireless only talks to each other.

Am I on the right track? Any tips would be appreciated.

 
A nice thing about the client modes is that only one end of the bridge needs to have that support -- the main router / access point doesn't need anything more than standard wireless. This means that you only have to flash one of them with third-party firmware, and the other one doesn't even have to be able to run DD-WRT/Tomato firmware.

I've used DD-WRT for this purpose, and it's been fine, but the documentation's pretty cluttered, so Tomato would probably be the simpler option. DD-WRT has a richer feature set and bigger device compatibility list, but as you don't seem to need those things, they'd amount to needless potential complexity.

I suggest using "Client Bridge" mode instead of client mode in DD-WRT. AFAIK, the corresponding mode is called "Wireless Ethernet Bridge" in Tomato. This mode avoids having a unnecessary firewall between the two sides.
 
Thanks for the replys.

I do have another question that I probably should have asked first. Is wireless g ok to use for playing games on live?
 
Originally posted by: hopeless
Thanks for the replys.

I do have another question that I probably should have asked first. Is wireless g ok to use for playing games on live?
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Yeah, it is OK.
 
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