WiFi extension question

[Carruth, Rusty]

As I say, my daughter had a box that came out with an ethernet cable, which then plugged in to her VOIP phone.

Setting it (the wall wart “access point” (possibly wrong name)) up was pretty much just giving it the SSID and password needed to get on the wifi. Once it connected, your Ethernet provided a route out to the world.  (I’m our IT support person for my family, so I set it up both at our house and at both of the places my daughter lived while having that job).  (The instructions I found online for the device were “good enough”).  (I think ‘bridge’ is the word I’m looking for)

AH!  It was the TP-Link: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/a9073505?mkwid=sQ43ySip4&pcrid=289648824840&pdv=c&product=A9073505&pgrid=62405449670&pgrid=62405449670&ptaid=pla-791267600626&ptaid=pla-791267600626&VEN1=sQ43ySip4~289648824840~901pdb6671~c~~A9073505~62405449670~pla-791267600626&VEN1=sQ43ySip4~289648824840~901pdb6671~c~~A9073505~62405449670~pla-791267600626&cid=314477006&cid=314477006&lid=59673400024&lid=59673400024&dgc=st&dgc=st&dgseg=dhs&dgseg=dhs&acd=1230980731501410&acd=1230980731501410&st=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-IDf0MOc5QIVsx-tBh2EvgogEAQYBSABEgJglPD_BwE&VEN3=112504933986218810
GAG, what a stinky URL.  Here, use this one instead: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/394/

If you want to search yourself, I used “wifi to ethernet adapter tp-link bridge”


So that helps you can find other devices, like:
https://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-Ethernet-2-WiFi-Universal-Wireless-GWU637/dp/B018YPWORE/ref=asc_df_B018YPWORE/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309751315916&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7378434688932900020&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-623140169207&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=67183599252&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=309751315916&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7378434688932900020&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-623140169207



Rusty

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My question is rooted in the fact that I don’t really understand what an “Access Point” can do — if they can serve as the source of an internet connection the same way as your cable modem’s internet device. It seems like they should. But there’s the question of how you log into them and set them up to talk to the remote router in question. I guess that will vary by device.

As for the VOIP interfaces, yes I’ve had several of them myself. I’ve got a couple from NetTalk in a box that I don’t use, one that supports WiFi and one that doesn’t.

The difference is, you plug a POTS phone into them. Not a router.

-David Schwartz



On Oct 14, 2019, at 12:16 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com<mailto:Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>> wrote:

I believe the answer is ‘yes, you can have the wifi “range extender” work that way’.

Longer answer - my daughter once had a VOIP phone that required an Ethernet cable, could not use wifi.
She only had wifi, but the company that she was working for also supplied a ‘wifi access box’ (about the size of a wall wart!, with an Ethernet jack) that she could use to ‘convert’ WiFI into wired for the phone they gave her
Worked great.  And I *think* that you weren’t limited to a single device on the wire….


Rusty



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