Mark and Jim are correct in their respective assertions that most people use routers instead of access points as well as most routers can be used like an access point.
In my setup at home I use an access point. I already had an 8 port switch and have a dsl router. I felt an additional router would be redundant. I have a Linksys WAP54G and it works great. For my parents, I picked up a WRT54G. They didn't have an ethernet switch, so this killed two birds with one stone. To avoid the router functionality (they have the same dsl setup as me) all I did was plug their computer and dsl router into the switch ports and leave the WAN port open. Easy as pie and works great. At the time I bought my parents their router it was 28USD cheaper than the access point, and Sprawl Mart had the router in stock. If I had to do it again I would've bought the router. Why not get the extra switch ports and have the option of the DD-WRT firmware? -- 4mula1 SlimServer 6.5.3 + Solaris 10 x86: Because Linux would've been too easy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4mula1's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3439 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37414 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
