I may have my subject line all wrong. I'm wondering does anyone knows of a wireless device that can act like a client on one wireless network (internet access) and in turn act as a WAP for a different network?Am I being clear here this would be sort of like a wireless bridge but also act as a wireless router for it's own netowrk? Example there is a freenet/open wireless network on the other side of a wall. We can make a small hole in the wall but we already know that the existing network on the otherside of that wall will not reach into the building with enough signal. We also know if we put any sort of device like a USB wireless NIC on the otherside of that wall the USB nic has no trouble getting a good clear signal. What would be ideal is put the wireless nic in through the hole and then via wires connect it to the WAN port of a wireless router and then have clients join the 'new' network for Internet access. Note permission exists, this is not some signal stealing scheme. I hope this is clearer then mud and someone can point me toward possible vendors. Don't need industrail strength, cheap consumer grade will fill this bill fine for this. What I'm looking for is a way to connect several computers in a room that seems to be a faraday cage to the wireless network outside. The room was built of steal and masonry in the 1920's and wireless just won't leak through those walls.(note if this doesn't exist in one package, is there a combination of devices that could make this work without having to have a computer in the middle other then to confure things)Thanks.fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

Deliberant LGO2AGN 802.11a/b/g + a/b/g Connectorized Dual Radio hastwo antenna ports.

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Mar 01, 2008 21 Replies

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Peter Pan 18 years ago

You may want to look into a plan B, I ran into several older buildings (both residential and commercial, that stop RF pretty effectively), in the main area i have one wap/router, wth the router parts output plugged into a powerline transceiver, and then wherever I need/want an xtra bang, have a combo (on a power strip) of the second powerline transceiver plugged in with another wap/router and the 2nd transceiver plugged into the router ports (not the wan)... Gives me both wired and wireless in various areas, and when I need one in a speciific area, I just plug it in... just an aside, I use the same subnet on most Internet woeks on most subnets, different starting IP addresses, and unique ssid's (don't care about roaming, and leave the dhcp servers on)... as to what to use, I use these

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Netgear powerline ethernet adapters (under $125 A pair) and several linksys wrt54g's

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DTC 18 years ago

Nope, if I was you would see clearly definable links to something. Since there isn't, I'm not.

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