Recommendations on a wireless bridge

thetedinator

thetedinator

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I have an ACIIIP and want to use it with a wireless bridge instead of directly connecting to my router.

Any recommendations on a bridge?

Thanks,

Ted
 
I have had great success with the Netgear ProSafe 802.11g wireless access point. The model number is WG-102 and sells for about $105. It is fanless unit in a metal case and is a notch above most consumer versions. For high security, you can configure two of these as a point-to-point bridge where each unit will only communicate with the other unit as defined by the MAC address. Additionally, you can encrypt all data transmission and suppress the SSID so it doesn't appear on anyone's "available network" list.
 
No need for an access point. All you need is a wireless bridge.

I stick to Netgear or DLink bridges. Easy to setup and reliable.

Carlos
 
I use a Netgear powerline ethernet extender: this

cheap and works quite well

plug one into the wall by the router and the other into the wall by the ACIII. connect router and acIII to their respectively adjacent units via ethernet cable and the router and ACIII will be talking to each other lickety split
 
i had an extra Linksys WRT54G router, and I loaded a 3rd party open source firmware, and have a 4 port wireless bridge, incase you have more than 1 device you need to connect
 
trevor, do you have any reading material on that 3rd party firmware bridge conversion? That sounds like a great idea.
 
The Buffalo adapter worked best for me. Tried the linksys gaming adapter first, terrible pain. Buffalo worked out of the box, and I haven't touch it since.
 
I did the same as Trevor, I purchased a Linksys WRT54G from Best Buy for $50 (half price of the game router) and installed DD-WRT on it. There are many other flavors of firmware you can download. I personally would not run open source software on my gateway, but am ok with it on a seconday access point.

I have my ACIII and Wireless bridge plugged into my UPS so it can text my phone when the power goes out. Using powerline devices will not work when the power goes out. Your main gateway (and possibly modem) will need to be on 2nd UPS as well.
 
agreed kflick, i would not trust something that is not "hardened" as my firewall, but like you said, internally it doesnt matter. Another thing you can do is to disable the SSID broadcast so it does not detect it, and if you really wanted to get secure, do a mac address filter... but that can be a pain, always having to add mac's when you get a new wifi device.
 
MAC isn't really that great for security, I dont even bother with it anymore. Choose a random 63 character WAP AES key and nobody is going to crack it. Although it was a pain to manually key into my Wii :D

While on security, I have a Linksys WRV200 (Best Buy $100) for my access point which has a built in VPN server. I can VPN to it, and then securely access my ACIII without the password sent in plain text over the internet. Its only 128 bit encryption on the VPN tunnel, but who's gonna crack that to get to my fish tank?:eek2:
 
The firmware on all linksys routers is open source been that way since cisco bought them out.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11577324#post11577324 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kfick
I did the same as Trevor, I purchased a Linksys WRT54G from Best Buy for $50 (half price of the game router) and installed DD-WRT on it. There are many other flavors of firmware you can download. I personally would not run open source software on my gateway, but am ok with it on a seconday access point.

I have my ACIII and Wireless bridge plugged into my UPS so it can text my phone when the power goes out. Using powerline devices will not work when the power goes out. Your main gateway (and possibly modem) will need to be on 2nd UPS as well.
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The firmware on all linksys routers is open source been that way since cisco bought them out.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11577324#post11577324 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kfick
I did the same as Trevor, I purchased a Linksys WRT54G from Best Buy for $50 (half price of the game router) and installed DD-WRT on it. There are many other flavors of firmware you can download. I personally would not run open source software on my gateway, but am ok with it on a seconday access point.

I have my ACIII and Wireless bridge plugged into my UPS so it can text my phone when the power goes out. Using powerline devices will not work when the power goes out. Your main gateway (and possibly modem) will need to be on 2nd UPS as well.
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I want everyone to know that I took advice from an earlier post in this thread that said to get a linksys wrt54G and put DDWRT firmware on it to make it a bridge.

I had issues with connecting it to my old 802.11b netgear router, so I ended up buying another wrt54G. I think with more effort I could have made it connect but I gave up and bought a 2nd new linksys.

Now in my reef room, I have a repeater bridge which can accept 5 ports of hardwire ethernet for webcameras and an aquacontroller III. In addition to the hard wire devices that I can connect to this bridge, the bridge can work as a wireless repeater. This repeater is repeating (copying) the SSID of my primary router and allowing wireless devices to bounce back and forth to the strongest connection.

I already had a primary router and since dd-wrt documentation claims you can connect to ANY router I should have been able to use my existing router, but could not figure it out. I must say, upgrading my primary router to a 54G router seemed to greatly improve my web surfing. I don't understand why as the older 11meg 802.11B router should have been a larger pipe than my 5MB internet WAN connection.

Anyway, I am very happy with my dual Linksys wrt54G v8 running DD-WRT. My access is stronger as I have an SSID broadcasting in two spots in my home instead of one. It seemed like a lot of money but if anyone is thinking about the bridged ddwrt I HIGHLY recommend it.

Remember: if you want dual wireless access points, then you MUST buy a newer linksys (the v8 version). Other versions act as a gateway
 
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