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May 2, 2005, 04:16 PM
 
Hi, I have a 125mbps wireless G belkin router that i use to connect most of my computers to the internet. My problem is that in a different room of my house, I want to connect some computers to the internet that do not have wireless cards. I have an extra wireless B microsoft router lying around, so i thought i could somehow set that up as a wired access point? Is that even possible? I know that I can connect all the computers by setting up one computer with a wireless card to share its connection via ethernet to my switch, but thats not very fast and annoying since i have to have the one computer on all the time.
Any suggestions or comments?
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May 2, 2005, 04:38 PM
 
What you're talking about doing is called bridging, and no, the MS box won't do that for you. There are dedicated wireless bridge devices, and some wireless routers that will act as bridges, but Microsoft never made any.

Look at Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys for "wireless bridge" devices. Also look at their routers to see which ones offer bridging mode. You can also search this forum for "bridge" and see what pops up.
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