On 9/25/06, Darrin Chandler 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 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss