[Cialug] Help with a home wireless network

[James Shoemaker]

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Rob Miller wrote:
> We just moved to a new house in WDM and all we can get is cable, no
> DSL.  Also, the basement is unfinished so there's no cable outlets down
> there.  So, I bought a Motorola SB900 wireless gateway for the nearest
> cable outlet upstairs.  Now, I have three desktop computers that are
> downstairs and I'd like to have internet access for all three of them at
> the same time.  Is there a device that I could use to link the three
> desktop machines downstairs to the wireless gateway upstairs?  I have a
> hub and I don't want to buy a wireless card for each of the desktop
> machines.  Can I add another wireless router downstairs and have it
> communicate with the gateway upstairs?  Obviously, I'm a networking
> newb. so any advice is much appreciated.

	Yes, you can do a wireless bridge.  There is custom firmware for a
WRT54 that can do it.

James
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