2nd Lan network connected wirelessly

[Geronimoe]

Hiya, Not sure if this is poss so thought i would ask, I have a network setup in the house using a d-link dsl wireless router.
All the computers and xboxes are connected to router wired except the computer in my office which is at the top of the garden which is connected to network wireless.
What i want to do is set up a wired network in my office for 3 computers but connect to my other network via the wireless connection and unsure what i need in terms of hardware to achieve this.

Any help greatly appreciated
Geronimoe

 

[beady]

Basically you'll need to buy a router that will support client mode.I'm sure other's will have their own methods for doing what you want, but I've got it set up as follows:

I've got an Asus WL500g with OpenWRT installed. It's set up as a wireless bridge and connects to my main router wirelessly with connection security (WPA). All I had to do was change a couple of config files and reboot the router. All machines are on the same subnet, and it works very well. One thing to note is you need a router running the OpenWRT brcm 2.4 kernel, it won't work with a 2.6 kernel. Have a look at the OpenWRT website for details.

I know that the Linksys WRT54GS or WRT54G will be able to do this as well.

You might get it working with DD-WRT as well.

Good luck.

 

[Geronimoe]

Cheers for the help i,ve ordered a buffalo whr-hp-g54 airstation and will give it a go with what you recommend.
Geronimoe

 

[beady]

i've ordered a buffalo whr-hp-g54 airstation

That should work fine. For your info, you'll need to edit /etc/config/wireless and /etc/config/network. Here's mine for you to compare with:
network:

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So all I've done is set 'proto' to dhcp and commented out the ip address and netwmask settings in /etc/config/network, and changed the 'mode' option to 'sta' in /etc/config/wireless (you also need to set ssid, encryption type (none, wep, psk, psk2) and your key in the wireless file).

It only takes about two minutes once you've got OpenWRT installed. As a final step, I disabled the firewall by deleting /etc/rc.d/S45firewall, and disabled dnsmasq (DNS and DHCP server) by deleting /etc/rc.d/S60dnsmasq. This doesn't seem to be absolutely necessary, but they take up valuable memory and aren't used for anything on the bridging router.

Good luck.

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[MH]

The other option was a Wireless Adaptor

 

[beady]

The other option was a Wireless Adaptor

True, but only if you've only got one device connected. If you've got more than one (3 in this case), then you've got to mess around converting the machine with the wireless adapter so it will act as a router/bridge. Much easier (imho) and more reliable to just get a separate router/bridge. Still, maybe a single wireless adapter as a bridge would work. Each to their own

 

[Geronimoe]

Just a follow up on this post and thanx again for your help and pointing me in the right direction,

I eventually received my buffalo whr-hp-g54 modem after waiting a month for it to be delivered.

I installed dd-wrt and used the tutorial on dd-wrt site to set up as a wireless repeater bridge.

I have got to say fantastic piece of firmware for these modems, I now have an extended LAN with 4 lan connections all on same subnet via the secondary router and i also have extended my wireless coverage as operates also as a wireless repeater at the same time.

I have attached link if anyone wants to do the same or is interested.

h**p://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

I used the Firmware: DD-WRT v24 RC-7 (02/18/08) std for this buffalo router as the older versions of dd-wrt does not allow wireless repeater mode at the same time.:banana:

 

[oneman]

True, but only if you've only got one device connected. If you've got more than one (3 in this case), then you've got to mess around converting the machine with the wireless adapter so it will act as a router/bridge. Much easier (imho) and more reliable to just get a separate router/bridge. Still, maybe a single wireless adapter as a bridge would work. Each to their own

Won't you be able to do this by enabling Internet Connection Sharing on the wireless connection.

 

[beady]

Yes, I suppose you could (I don't use windows, so I've never tried. Does it 'just work'). But you'd still need at least an extra switch for the other PCs to be 'lanned together'. Plus, it'd mean the main PC would have to be on all the time. IMHO it's better to use a dedicated router for this. Plus, he's got a wireless extender out of it as well.

 

[Geronimoe]

As beady stated i did not want a dedicated pc on all the time also i had to virtually hang the router in the house out of the window to get a signal up to the top of the garden

I repositioned the house router in the garage and my original wireless adaptor can not even find it but the new buffalo router picks it up no problems. And the bonus with this method i have a wireless repeater extending the coverage and a very stable network

For my purposes it is perfect but say your sister lives 3 doors down and you wanted to use her internet connection wirelessly but wanted your own dedicated network for your own house to connect your xbox and dreambox etc all together this will do it all out of one box.