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Wireless Bridge

this si the Deal. I have a whole Wired network in one building. I have another building next use that we are going to take over. I cannot run a wire from roof to roof so i was looking into the wireless bridge setup. Is it posible to just have one wireless bridge on my Wired side point to the other wireless bridge in the new building and than have it into a switch and than hook pc's up in the other building?

thanks or does anyone know of a better way? and is there Wireless AP with N now?

NYtechGuy

That is the way to go, you are right. Not sure about N bridges though.

Linksys Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1134692497433&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

Skunny

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SO I can use the a AP on the wired side and than use this Linksys bridge on the other side and run it into a switch and it will get IP's from my wired side?

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Skunny

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thank you so much NYtechGuy

NYtechGuy

No problem, and good luck!

Thanks.

gbirkemeier

Yes, you can do that and for even less money you can get two Linksys WRT54G routers and install a third party firmware that supports bridging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G#Third-party_firmware_projects
I like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

The problem with this is that these routers and the one listed above by NYtechGuy are consumer grade and will give you a nonstop headach. They are nowhere near reliable/strong enough to use every dat in an office.

Find a way to run a cable, your like will be better for it in the long run. If you can't run cable then make sure you are useing enterprise level hardware for this, even then good luck.

http://www2.nortel.com/go/product_content.jsp?parId=0&segId=-9230&catId=-9546&prod_id=54421&locale=en-US