Turning a wired router into wireless?
The router in my house is downstairs, and I run an ethernet cable to my bedroom. Now that I got my Macbook, I really don't wanna have the ethernet plugged in all the time, kind of defeats the point. I talked to my dad and for some reason he doesn't wanna switch the wired router to a wireless. I talked to my cousin, and he said something about an adapter piece that I just have to put in the back of my dad's router and it'll let off a wireless signal for me, and I don't have to change the actual router. Does anyone know what piece he's talking about? Or if he's even right?
I work at Best Buy but in cameras so I don't know TOO much about computers, but if you can get me a link to exactly what I'd need from Best Buy it'd be really appreciated.
Wow I really wish I knew about that earlier. I spent about a half hour trying to set up a network bridge from my wired linksys to my wireless linksys, and couldn't even get it to work. I just looked up the Airport Express Base Station and it seems like exactly what I need, and more because my printer's in the living room and my Macbook is in my room. It's a pain when I have to save my Pages documents to Word format just to send it to my dad's PC and print it out.
Basically all I do is connect the ethernet going from my wired router to the AEBS and plug it into the wall right?
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[edited to:
- break the really long lines into shorter ones
- add that I'm running Win XP on all of the machines I mention
- add that I'm able to get to the BEFSR's web-based admin utility from the wired computers and to the WRT54's admin utility from the
wireless connection and things look okay there
- add that I've tried running the set-up utility that came on the installation CD but that just gets stuck partway through the process]Message Edited by Kilrathi on 07-06-2006 08:34 PMI have almost the same issue just a bit reversed and cant figure it out. I have the wireless WRT54GS as the main router. Setup as PPPOE for dsl (which is plugged into the internet port)DCHP enabled. MTU auto size 1432. ip 192.168.1.1
Advanced routing operating mode gateway, interface lan & wireless.
Second router BEFSR41 V3 set to auto search for ip. ip assigned 192.168.1.2 Nat enabled, DCHP disabled. tried to get it with from first router port 2 to 2nd router internet port. Worked for some time then power went out and now both the computers connected to the 2nd router are offline. Tried your guys idea of router 1 port 2 to router 2 port 2 but that didnt work.
Edit: Fiddled with it, smacked a buncha resets and such. Works now in the port 2 to port 2 deal. GG all.
Message Edited by Gavilian86 on 12-13-2008 08:41 AM
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