access point

[minneman]

Can anyone recomend an inexpencive wireless access point?

Looking to get wireless in my shop, have cat5 to the shop that works fine but would like wireless.

Thanks

[delcecchi]

Can anyone recomend an inexpencive wireless access point?

Looking to get wireless in my shop, have cat5 to the shop that works fine but would like wireless.

Thanks

I think many routers can be configured as switches and access points if you already have a router.

For example, Belkin has the following article

http://www.belkin.com/us/support-article?articleNum=8067

So go to wally world, pick up a router and configure it as an access point.

[upnorth]

There are other ways to use the router too. Just plugging it in and letting to route from the other network can be done too. It would be like plugging it into a cable or DSL modem.

[delcecchi]

You can run routers in tandem?

[upnorth]

Yep. It is how your typical Wide Area Network is created.

All a router does is route traffic from one network to another. Well from the routing standpoint.

In a simple network a router has an inside and outside interface. Both have an IP address. Inside interface is your internal network and the outside interface is the internet or the route to the internet. So it will just send the traffic to the next router.

In the real world it is more complex than that, but that is how it would work in this case.

[delcecchi]

Yep. It is how your typical Wide Area Network is created.

All a router does is route traffic from one network to another. Well from the routing standpoint.

In a simple network a router has an inside and outside interface. Both have an IP address. Inside interface is your internal network and the outside interface is the internet or the route to the internet. So it will just send the traffic to the next router.

In the real world it is more complex than that, but that is how it would work in this case.

Learn something new every day. So the IP addresses get assigned ok?

[minneman]

Ok but, how about plug n play...

[upnorth]

Considering how most home routers are setup it will just get a DHCP(dynamic host configuration protocol) IP address assigned to it for the outside interface from the other routers DHCP pool. The only issue maybe that the standard inside address pool maybe the same as the original routers adn you would need to change that. Pretty easy. I don't normally care for the default anyways.

[upnorth]

Read my other reply to Del. You may need to make a minor change to the new routers DHCP address pool.

[minneman]

got a linksys router from a bud, plugged it in and it worked, no configuring anything...00.$ yay!

[upnorth]

Good deal!!