Re: Wireless brigde question

Rob,
It's not clear (to me, at least) what you're trying to accomplish. If
you have two wired networks, what's the 802.11g router doing? I'm not
sure why you're doing wireless.

Are you trying to connect the two wired networks via a wireless "bridge"
between the two? If so, you'll be losing a lot of potential bandwidth,
providing you're currently running fast (100mb) ethernet. If you have
two wired (cat5) networks (in effect?), running a single cat5 cable to
connect the two is pretty trivial (switch to switch, no routing
necessary), and is a better (faster, more reliable and secure) solution
to using wireless. I'd use one of the wired lan ports on your USR8054 to
connect to the other side of the house, and you're good to go.

Perhaps you could clarify.

Rob Wultsch wrote:

> Please excuse the non-linux question but this group is highly
> knowledgeable and I would love to tap it's wireless know-how.
>
> I have in effect wired networks on opposite sides of my house and
> would like it if everything could see everything else. I have a
> 802.11g router (USR8054 which is very nice) and would like a
> recommendation as to what I should buy for the other side of the
> house.
>
> Can I use another wireless router or do I need a Brigde, Access Point or what?
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