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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ruckus Metroflex units support bridging,
routing and routing+nat.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>They are relatively cheap and have a
typical web interface as well as a telnet/ssh cli<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Examples:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a
href="http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=ruckus+wireless&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=ruckus&_osacat=0">http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=ruckus+wireless&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=ruckus&_osacat=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>These are the typical routers used in the
City of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Minneapolis</st1:place></st1:City>
wifi network.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Andy Schmid<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 06, 2009 2:36
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Adam Monsen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Twin Cities Linux Users<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [tclug-list]
wirelessly bridging a small wired network</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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 :)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Adam Monsen <<a
href="mailto:haircut@gmail.com">haircut@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have a room in my
apartment (let's call it the "office") that is about<br>
100' away from my cable modem. I have an 802.11g wireless router<br>
connected to the cable modem.<br>
<br>
The office has three desktop computers wired to each other via a switch<br>
(for sharing a printer), but they can't get to the internet. I could get<br>
a very large length of CAT 5 or 6 cable, but that seems like a long way<br>
to stretch ethernet cabling, and a potentially ugly addition to my<br>
apartment (I can't drill and snake it through the walls).<br>
<br>
So, I'm thinking wireless. I *could* just get one wireless adapter for<br>
each computer, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a networking device<br>
that would basically talk 802.11g to the existing wireless router and<br>
share internet with the three computers in the office (via the existing<br>
office switch). I think this would basically be a wireless-to-wired<br>
bridge.<br>
<br>
Maybe something like this D-Link DGL-3420:<br>
<a href="http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=383" target="_blank">http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=383</a><br>
Hard to be sure if it would work for my purposes.<br>
<br>
I know I can get a wrt54g or a dedicated computer to act as a bridge,<br>
but I was looking for a more plug-and-play adapter with WPA support and<br>
a little Web UI for configuring stuff like the wireless password.<br>
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