Wireless Shared Internet to Router

[imported_Duckman]

I just bought a D-LINK DI-624+ Wireless router in order to access wireless internet that is free in my office building. To my big disappointment after I've installed router was finding out that it only can be setup to access internet through RJ-45 connection and can not re-route my Wi-Fi internet to my wired network. At least I am not able to see a way to do so.

Question: Is there something on the market that would let me have Wireless router serve as internet access point and re-rout it to my network or is the only way I can accomplish this by installing a wi-fi NIC in one of the PCs and using it as a router?

 

[Kelemvor]

Eh?

Whatever network you plug the router into is where the traffic will go. If you plug that router into some other router and have DHCP turned off on the D Link, then you can connect wirelessly to the same network the router is on.

What exactly do you need to do and what exactly isn't working?

 

[imported_Duckman]

basicly I would like to recive brodband internet through Wi-FI to the router so my LAN has internet access

 

[sjgmoney]

The internet is free in your office building or you are going to make it free to you?

 

[imported_Duckman]

the internet is free. So anyone with a wi-fi nic can recive it. I dont want to install wireless nics on every pc plus with router it would be more secure.

 

[SaintTigurius]

Get a repeater than, like a dwl-g800. that will connect to the "Free" wireless network, than u will hock it up the the router, and than your computers can be pluged into the router

 

[JackMDS]

What you would like to do is to Bridge your Network with the Current Wireless network that is available in the building.

This page describes few bridging options. Read it carefully and choose the one that would fulfill your desires.

Link to: Wirelessly Bridging Home / SOHO Network.

:sun:

 

[Staz]

There is a big difference between an Access Point and a Bridge.

An Access Point is a device that is hard wired to the main switch and broadcasts the wireless signal out to an area where the main wireless router can't reach. Most wireless routers can also do this. So basically it takes a wired signal and turns it into a wireless signal.

A Bridge does the opposite. It takes a wireless signal and converts it into a wired signal and that goes directly into a system via an Ethernet cable or even into a switch to be shared between systems. Bridges are more expensive than Access Points. The cheapest bridge you will find are those that allow game consoles, ie Xbox or PS2, to connect to a wireless network. Since game consoles have no expansion ports, only Ethernet in ports and no drivers can be loaded, those devices are just small Bridges and probably would work for a small network.

And yes, wireless NIC's can act as a bridge. Just setup Internet Connection Sharing on that system with the wireless NIC and send the wired connection into a switch so other systems connected to that switch can use the wireless connection also. Basically, you are turning that system into a poor-man's bridge.