Andrew Hume <[email protected]> writes:
> for my home network, i want to connect my kids pc's to my home network. the
> transport from the access point to their pc's is wifi, but for
> unsatisfactory reasons, the wifi adapter cards for their pc's are a bust.
> so i thought to get a (unknown term - maybe bridge) that is a wifi at one
> end and ethernet at the other.
>
> is bridge the right term?
Yes.
> and can anyone specifically recommend a brand or disrecommend a brand?
Yeah: the Linksys WET54G is pretty good at 802.11[bg] bridging. I think they
still mostly sell it to connect "game consoles" to the network, but it is an
Ethernet port and a wireless network *client* in a little box.
They work just fine for getting an Ethernet-only device attached to wireless
without much complexity, and given how commodity the service is these days
pretty much any vendor who offered a similar device would probably be good.
They are usually single Ethernet port devices, but you could attach a switch
without any huge hardship or anything.
Alternately, USB wireless things usually work fairly robustly on Windows or
MacOS-X hosts, so they might be an alternative to otherwise investing in
such a device.
> i am contemplating a linksys wrt54gl
That is a wireless "Access Point" device, and I don't off-hand know if the
stock firmware can act as a client. It probably can, though.
Daniel
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