Wireless Access Point with 4-ports?

[ThroatPunch]

My apartment for school next year has wireless internet instead of wired. Is there any wireless access point with 4 ethernet ports built in? I would just put wireless cards in all of them, but I'd rather buy this instead of getting wireless cards for a pc, xbox, and mac(no airport in it). Any ideas?

I found a linksys router + access point. would this allow me to wire computers to a wireless switch, essentially?

 

[Pabster]

Yes. Most of the wireless routers have 4 hard-wired Ethernet ports as well.

 

[ThroatPunch]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Yes. Most of the wireless routers have 4 hard-wired Ethernet ports as well.

Right. My wireless router now has 4-ports, but I just wanted to make sure the wireless accesspoint would allow me to have a wired connection to it. Could anyone suggest one? Preferably an 802.11g

 

[crizzar]

you can use another router and set it up as an access point/repeater, the 4 ports on it will just be like adding another switch

 

[ThroatPunch]

So I have been checking out repeaters. bridges, access points, and whatnot. Can I just use most plain old routers to take the wireless signal, and have wired computers connect to the router like an access point kind of?

 

[pdo]

you would need an access point like this that can act as a client and a 4 port switch.

 

[ThroatPunch]

Originally posted by: .paldo
you would need an access point like this that can act as a client and a 4 port switch.

thanks for the link. what do you think about the Linksys WRT54G

I think I can get it for $43 shipped after a $10 rebate. Besides, I don't need anything faster than 802.11g

Look good?

 

[pdo]

great router... go for it. You would need a hacked firmware to get the Linksys to work in client mode. check out this thread if you do get the Linksys router..

 

[ThroatPunch]

Originally posted by: .paldo
great router... go for it. You would need a hacked firmware to get the Linksys to work in client mode. check out this thread if you do get the Linksys router..

awesome. thanks. that's exactly what i was looking for.