I hope someone can help me with an interior decorating problem. ;)
My new apartment has the cable outlet in an odd place, and it looks like the cable provider won't be able to move it. Because of the setup, that is where the television will go.
So I need to set up my desk and computers on the opposite wall. I'd rather not run 50 ft. of cable around the perimeter of the room, and across two main walkways.
I currently have:
Motorola SB5100 Cable Modem Linksys BEFSR41 Router Linksys 5 port Gigabit Switch
4 systems with gigabit ethernet cards, and 1 notebook I've been using with ethernet.Obviously I don't want to go wireless on each system since that would defeat the purpose of the gigabit network.
Can I bridge two WAP's so that I can have the modem and one WAP connected to the cable jack, and another WAP connected to the router? The internet connection is only 5 Mb/s, so good WAP's should mean that I would notice no degradation in speed.
I've worked with WAP's before (I have a Linksys WAP sitting in a box somewhere that I've had no use for lately), but never bridging them, so I might not even understand what it means. For instance, if the WAP's are bridged can I ever connect the notebook via wireless?
If anyone has any suggestions on how to solve my problem with no loss in speed I would appreciate it.