8 Dec
2011
8 Dec
'11
6:51 p.m.
On Dec 8, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Randy Dawson wrote:
On the off chance somebody here has done this:
I have 2 wireless routers, one connects to cable and I have an internet connection. Its
a wifi too.
I want to pick up that wireless signal with another router, locate it in the other part
of the house to connect a wired ethernet device. its as if I want a wireless adapter, but
not having an output that is usb, but a ethernet jack.
Is this possible?
Its to avoid running a long cat 5 cable thru the house.
I do this quite frequently with Apple Airports (one regular base station and one
"Express" which hooks up to an Ethernet switch and the stereo). It works
seamlessly; I configure the Express as extending the network and it puts it in bridge
mode. I've never tried interoperating them with other routers, but I'm given to
understand that DD-WRT has some facilities for using Apple's scheme (it's not
straight WDS, as I understand it, though I've not thoroughly researched it). I've
had bad luck in the past trying to use WDS with generic off-the-shelf routers (none of
which supported DD-WRT, or I would have tried it).
- Dave