Wireless link solution?

[Alex LeDonne]

On 9/25/06, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 10:40:51PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > There is a kind of wireless bridge which is useful for connecting clusters
> > of machines wirelessly.  Buffalo calls it an ethernet converter.  Basicly,
> > the box has 4 ethernet ports and acts as a shared wireless client to an AP
> > somewhere else on the network.  If that AP is in your router, then all
> > machines can be happily part of the same network.  The machines connected to
> > the 4 ethernet ports only think they have a wired connection.  BTW I have
> > tried this out but for someone else so I cannot speak to any bottlenecks or
> > other speed issues.
>
> I have a similar LinkSys product, which they call a wireless bridge
> (WET54G). Note that it actually *IS* a bridge, so it passes DHCP and
> everything else. That makes for simple setup. I have had sporadic
> trouble with it losing the access point for minutes at a time for no
> apparent reason.
>
> I'm also using an older LinkSys WRT54G w/ sveasoft in client mode, which
> acts much like the Buffalo described above. It never loses the AP.

The Buffalo device can either serve DHCP itself or pass it on; i.e. it
can function as either an AP or a bridge. I'm using it at home for 3
systems with no difficulty. I haven't done any speed testing, but my
upstream is 1.5M DSL, and the Buffalo bridge is certainly "fast
enough". I can watch streaming video on YouTube (I assume everyone has
viewed Wierd Al's "White & Nerdy" by now, right?) with no bandwidth
problems.

-Alex