building a wireless bridge berman.josh[ at ]gmail.com 11.07.2007 04:36:46 Here's the situation: I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office. I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would go about this? Thanks, - Josh

Re: building a wireless bridge Lem <lemp40[ at ]hotmail.com> 11.07.2007 14:31:18 berman.josh[ at ]gmail.com wrote: [Quoted Text] > Here's the situation: > I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my > router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other > side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a > different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router > F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office. > I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would > go about this? > Thanks, > - Josh > According to Belkin, their F5D7230-4 can act as a wireless bridge, but only with a Belkin 54g Wireless Access Point (model F5D7130). "Bridging with other brands of Access Points is not supported at this time." http://www.belkin.com/support/dl/Wireless%20Bridge.pdf You can try setting it up as described in the doc above, but I don't know if it will work with your Versalink WireSpeed. Alternatively, you could install DD-WRT firmware in the Belkin and try setting up a bridge with that, but again, it may not work or may work only with WEP encryption, which these days is about the same as no encryption. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bridge_Install If you do get it to work, please post back with your results and how you achieved them. If you can't get bridging to work with the hardware you have, probably the least expensive option is to buy 2 used routers from the list suggested by DD-WRT, download and flash the firmware, and then set up the bridge. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices -- Lem MS MVP -- Networking To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Re: building a wireless bridge "Jack \(MVP-Networking\)." <Jack[ at ]discussiongroup.com> 11.07.2007 21:23:35 Hi Try it first as is, the claim of Not supporting none Belkin devices is mainly to avoid support calls concerning other devices is Not Belkin and are involved in the Wireless Network. In many cases it might Bridge with other manufacturers devices. If it does not follow the DD-WRT router. Jack (MVP-Networking). "Lem" <lemp40[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in message news:%23FL9lg8wHHA.3340[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > berman.josh[ at ]gmail.com wrote: >> Here's the situation: >> I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my >> router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other >> side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a >> different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router >> F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office. >> I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would >> go about this? >> Thanks, >> - Josh >> > > According to Belkin, their F5D7230-4 can act as a wireless bridge, but > only with a Belkin 54g Wireless Access Point (model F5D7130). "Bridging > with other brands of Access Points is not supported at this time." > http://www.belkin.com/support/dl/Wireless%20Bridge.pdf > > You can try setting it up as described in the doc above, but I don't know > if it will work with your Versalink WireSpeed. > > Alternatively, you could install DD-WRT firmware in the Belkin and try > setting up a bridge with that, but again, it may not work or may work only > with WEP encryption, which these days is about the same as no encryption. > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bridge_Install > > If you do get it to work, please post back with your results and how you > achieved them. > > If you can't get bridging to work with the hardware you have, probably the > least expensive option is to buy 2 used routers from the list suggested by > DD-WRT, download and flash the firmware, and then set up the bridge. > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices > > -- > Lem MS MVP -- Networking > > To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer