My neighbor has a wireless connection as well as myself in my own house - is there a way to bridge both wireless connections? in my Network control panel I can only create one wireless connection because i only have one wireless card in my desktop - is there a way to create another wireless connection and bridge the two connections together?
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actually some access points have bridge capabilities. look in the web based setup for the ap's you might be able to set it up as a bridge and specify which mac to bind to. Ive tried doing the XP thing with a wireless card and onboard nic, but couldnt get it working (probably because one of the nics didnt support promiscuous mode)
Bridging requires two adapters. Usually a bridge is to conenct two different media types for example wired and wireless. For example I have a cable modem, a wireless ethernet card and a 10/100 wired ethernet card. I want my laptop which is also using a wireless card to have internet access. Therefor, I will set up the wired ethernet to my cable modem and set up the wireless card as a bridge to allow my laptop to connect to my desktop and share my wired connection through the wired connection my desktop uses to connect to the internet. It is impossible with one controller to establish a bridge for the simple reason that a bridge connects two networks together.
From PC Mag
"Windows XP has a new feature called Network Bridge, which lets you connect disparate media types into one seamless LAN. For example, if you have a network PC connected to a LAN, cable modem, or DSL modem via Ethernet, you can create a bridge between the Ethernet connection and your PC's FireWire connection.
When you connect a laptop to the desktop via FireWire, the Network Bridge provides an IP connection to the laptop, even though the laptop isn't connected directly into the network. To create a bridge, select two connections in the Network Connections control panel, then right-click on them and select Bridge Connections.
If you are bridging an Ethernet connection to a FireWire connection, you must manually set the IP address information (including IP address, gateway address, and DNS server address) on the FireWire-connected laptop, even if the LAN is configured to assign IP addresses automatically using a DHCP server. If you frequently connect the same laptop to the same desktop, you can use the alternate IP address configuration feature to set the IP address to use for the FireWire connection."
Pbessman, accept what you get. If you want to get right down to it, I think I was the first to post:
>you could get two wireless NIC's in one PC, and at least with XP, create a bridge between the two NIC's,
Then you post (24 hours later):
>you need another card to bridge the connection.
Yours was accepted, mine was not, and you're complaining about the grade?
Don't worry about it. Just keep coming back whenever you have a question. It doesn't matter if you can't afford a bunch of points or not.
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pbessman was awarded the points the first time,
then the asker stated " i accepted the wrong answer" and " i hit the wrong button in the first place! "
The question was re-opened and never subsequently closed appropriately
I'll split the points with pbessman, but I was the first to offer the solution.
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by: lrmoorePosted on 2003-07-07 at 16:21:40ID: 8873096
Not really. You would have to use wireless bridges. Since you both have access points, they are not designed to be bridges. I guess you could get two wireless NIC's in one PC, and at least with XP, create a bridge between the two NIC's, or even route between then. Not sure what you are really trying to accomplish...