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><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Adam Monsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haircut@gmail.com">haircut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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