Ruckus Metroflex units support bridging, routing and routing+nat. They are relatively cheap and have a typical web interface as well as a telnet/ssh cli Examples: http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=ruckus+wireless <http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=ruckus+wireless&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m27 0.l1313&_odkw=ruckus&_osacat=0> &_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=ruckus&_osacat=0 These are the typical routers used in the City of Minneapolis wifi network. _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Andy Schmid Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:36 PM To: Adam Monsen Cc: Twin Cities Linux Users Subject: Re: [tclug-list] wirelessly bridging a small wired network I believe you have 100 meters (~328 feet) to work with when it comes to ethernet cable, anything beyond that length and you'll need some sort of a repeater. That should be plenty to figure out some way to run a cable. I once lived in a house where we fished from each room ethernet cabling through the air vents, and centralized the router in the basement by the furnace. Be creative :) I've done the whole wireless bridging before, and let me tell you its more trouble than its worth. The connection reliability is sub-par and no where near the speed of gigE. I recommend a wired connection. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail.com> wrote: I have a room in my apartment (let's call it the "office") that is about 100' away from my cable modem. I have an 802.11g wireless router connected to the cable modem. The office has three desktop computers wired to each other via a switch (for sharing a printer), but they can't get to the internet. I could get a very large length of CAT 5 or 6 cable, but that seems like a long way to stretch ethernet cabling, and a potentially ugly addition to my apartment (I can't drill and snake it through the walls). So, I'm thinking wireless. I *could* just get one wireless adapter for each computer, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a networking device that would basically talk 802.11g to the existing wireless router and share internet with the three computers in the office (via the existing office switch). I think this would basically be a wireless-to-wired bridge. Maybe something like this D-Link DGL-3420: http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=383 Hard to be sure if it would work for my purposes. I know I can get a wrt54g or a dedicated computer to act as a bridge, but I was looking for a more plug-and-play adapter with WPA support and a little Web UI for configuring stuff like the wireless password. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090406/7d19fe8d/attachment-0001.htm