building a wireless bridge
 

Here's the situation:
I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
go about this?
Thanks,
- Josh

Re: building a wireless bridge
 

berman.josh@gmail.com wrote:
> Here's the situation:
> I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
> router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
> side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
> different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
> F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
> I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
> go about this?
> Thanks,
> - Josh
>

According to Belkin, their F5D7230-4 can act as a wireless bridge, but
only with a Belkin 54g Wireless Access Point (model F5D7130). "Bridging
with other brands of Access Points is not supported at this time."
http://www.belkin.com/support/dl/Wireless%20Bridge.pdf

You can try setting it up as described in the doc above, but I don't
know if it will work with your Versalink WireSpeed.

Alternatively, you could install DD-WRT firmware in the Belkin and try
setting up a bridge with that, but again, it may not work or may work
only with WEP encryption, which these days is about the same as no
encryption.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bridge_Install

If you do get it to work, please post back with your results and how you
achieved them.

If you can't get bridging to work with the hardware you have, probably
the least expensive option is to buy 2 used routers from the list
suggested by DD-WRT, download and flash the firmware, and then set up
the bridge.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

--
Lem MS MVP -- Networking

To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Re: building a wireless bridge
 

Hi
Try it first as is, the claim of Not supporting none Belkin devices is
mainly to avoid support calls concerning other devices is Not Belkin and are
involved in the Wireless Network.
In many cases it might Bridge with other manufacturers devices.
If it does not follow the DD-WRT router.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Lem" <lemp40@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> berman.josh@gmail.com wrote:
>> Here's the situation:
>> I have DSL and use a Versalink WireSpeed 327w as my modem and my
>> router. I only have one jack in my apt., and my office is on the other
>> side of the place. Instead of running a long wire I'd like to use a
>> different wireless router I have (Belkin Wireless G router
>> F5D7230-4)to somehow connect the two and then have wires in my office.
>> I don't care which is the router per se. Does anyone know how I would
>> go about this?
>> Thanks,
>> - Josh
>>
>
> According to Belkin, their F5D7230-4 can act as a wireless bridge, but
> only with a Belkin 54g Wireless Access Point (model F5D7130). "Bridging
> with other brands of Access Points is not supported at this time."
> http://www.belkin.com/support/dl/Wireless%20Bridge.pdf
>
> You can try setting it up as described in the doc above, but I don't know
> if it will work with your Versalink WireSpeed.
>
> Alternatively, you could install DD-WRT firmware in the Belkin and try
> setting up a bridge with that, but again, it may not work or may work only
> with WEP encryption, which these days is about the same as no encryption.
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Bridge_Install
>
> If you do get it to work, please post back with your results and how you
> achieved them.
>
> If you can't get bridging to work with the hardware you have, probably the
> least expensive option is to buy 2 used routers from the list suggested by
> DD-WRT, download and flash the firmware, and then set up the bridge.
> http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
>
> --
> Lem MS MVP -- Networking
>
> To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer