TWO wireless networks, TWO homes, want to BRIDGE the wireless connections

Dunno about D-Link, but what about setting up a VPN thru the internet to tie them together?

William P.N. Smith wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

You don't want to do that. While possible, it wuold be extrememly slow compared to a direct bridge.

OK, but you are going to need a real 2-port router to sit between two client-mode APs, and program it to pass LAN traffic while letting each one get WAN traffic from their separate broadband connections. The APs are easy, but the router might be difficult or expensive.

I agree on the cost of the 2 port router, that would be expensive, I am not well versed on vpn's where is a good place on the net to read about setting one up, I would realy like to do this rather than droppping mine to connect to his.

You'll have to check the documentation on your two routers to see if they support VPNs, and can set up a VPN between them. Client software and a VPN endpoint is going to get realy ugly really fast.

William P.N. Smith hath wroth:

Some IPSec VPN clients can be messy very fast. Others are really simple. For example, Cisco's VPN client for Windoze 4.6 has a "simple" mode. It's not too horrible to configure: |

148 pages of instructions. Well, maybe a little closer to horrible than what I recall when I was using it.

PPTP VPN's are trivial. The DD-WRT alternative firmware for the WRT54G supports terminating a PPTP VPN in the router. The client can be just a Windoze machine (any version) setup with Microsoft PPTP client. |

You can also have the router initiate the connection, thus creating one big (bi-directional) network out of the two endpoints by installing the Linux PPTP client in the router: | haven't tried this one but I've been told that it works.

There are also some really cheap IPSec VPN router from Linksys and Netgear, that will work. I use Sonicwall routers for VPN's, but that's far more expensive.

One catch is that the speed of the VPN is limited by the outgoing bandwidth of the DSL or cable connection. That's usually 384Kbit/sec, which will make the VPN appear rather slothish. IPSec also has quite a bit of overhead, which will slow things down even more. Worse, the VPN encryption/decryption overhead in the router (if terminiated or initiated in the router) will really slow down the processor in the router. If you expect performance, a VPN is not the best answer.

holy crap, now thats the kind of information I find useful, It is exactly what I am looking for at least for the time being, its a place to start

Jeff Liebermann wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Which was my original point exactly.