wireless to wired network bridge?

[ShawnD1]

What I'm trying to do is very simple and I don't want to screw this up by buying the wrong thing.

I live in a basement suite of a house and the landlord lets me use his wifi. I want to have a wired network in the basement that ties into his upstairs wifi. How do I do this?

diagram:
wifi --> (something) --> wired network

Is this the type of product I am looking for? The product description doesn't mean much to me.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...16833127256CVF

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

google for DD-WRT WIreless repeater bridge or wireless bridge. There are a bunch of ways to do this, but the DD-WRT tutorials answer your exact use case. Then just get a supported DD-WRT router and set it up correctly. I will take a couple of hours to figure out the upgrade and setup the bridge, but you shouldn't need physical access to the other router.

 

[JackMDS]

The D-link linked above is Hyper pricey for such a device.

Get this, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833320039

Flash it wit DD_WRT and configure it as a Wireless Bridge.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridged

 

[ImDonly1]

One time I setup a WDS bridge between 2 different brand routers and couldn't get any form of wireless security to work (WPA or WPA2). I would look into that. Not sure if I just had it setup wrong? I could turn on MAC filtering though, although that isn't really secure.

 

[ShawnD1]

Thanks for the help guys. I take it "wireless bridge" is the technical term I was looking for. Basically the opposite of a wireless router.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

A bridge isn't really the "opposite" of a router, they are just differnt connection technologies...but the symantics is not really important.

I just setup what you are looking for this last weekend. I used a WRT-310N and a WRT-320N with DD-WRT. I'm actually using differnt firmware releases (same family) on the routers, but it worked fine. In researching there is a really good info on the wiki. start here.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Linking_Routers

it will tell you which version to use.

I personally setup repeater bridge, since i wanted to have wired and wireless clients accessing it.

I've also setup WPA PSK AES security on the routers...so that works.

 

[ShawnD1]

A bit of an update to this thread. I found that it's easy to use an old laptop to act as a wireless bridge. Instead of selecting multiple network devices and creating a bridge (which doesn't work), it's done by enabling "internet connection sharing" for the wireless adapter.

Keep this in mind next time says they are throwing out some 5 year old crappy laptop. A crappy laptop can still make an excellent bridge. The wireless adapters in laptops always seem to work better than the PCI and USB wireless adapters that go in desktop computers.

 

[bobdole369]

Another way to do that without the firewall that ICS forces - is to select both devices, and choose "bridge these devices" - Anything plugged into one of the devices appears as if on the other one.

 

[ShawnD1]

Another way to do that without the firewall that ICS forces - is to select both devices, and choose "bridge these devices" - Anything plugged into one of the devices appears as if on the other one.

Tried that first and it didn't work for some reason. While searching for stuff on how to do this, I found that most of the guides were about people trying to use a laptop to get wireless internet to an Xbox 360 without buying the $100 Xbox wireless adapter. Some say bridged works and ICS doesn't, some say ICS works and bridged doesn't.

Luckily one of them works.