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.
On 9/24/06, Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@qwest.net> wrote:
I have a problem where I need to link my network together over,
preferably, a wireless connection. All the systems will be part of one
slightly larger LAN within my home, but they are clustered in areas of
the house that make running cable more painful than I consider
worthwhile. Also, I don't want to have to buy wireless NIC's for all my
systems as I would take a local performance hit on the systems that are
physically near each other doing that.
So, anyone have a recommendation on a small embedded device (linksys or
otherwise) that allows the linking of two of them together for the
purposes of acting as an invisible bridge?
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