Re: 802.11b wireless bridges

["mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

I don't really understand the positioning of the Linksys Bridge.

It's more expensive than the Access Point, which is bizarre, given
that the Access point has a "remote bridge" mode.

I use a Linksys WAP11 in "remote bridge" mode at home, and it
works
well. It will talk to a hub fine.

As far as I can tell, in this mode, it's a "bridge" in the
layer-2
sense - ie it bridges at the ethernet level, so everything appears on
the same IP subnet... specifically, it DOES pass DHCP and SSDP
requests to a server on the "base" network.

The only problems I've had with the Linksys kit are in the remote
management. When I have needed to change something, I've ended up
having to go to the device with a USB-cable and laptop in hand :-(

Regards,

Mark

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "patricklidstone" <patrick@l...>
wrote:
> Expansys are now carrying a couple of wireless bridges:
>
> - Linksys wireless ethernet bridge
> - D-Link DWL-810 Ethernet To Wireless Bridge (quite a lot cheaper)
>
>
>
> ...at reasonable cost -- probably cheaper than pulling cat5 and
> buying sockets for me right now. They claim to interoperate with
> pretty much any access point, but I'd love to verify that (esp.
with
> WEP key specification thrown in to the equation too) before parting
> with the folding.
>
> Any first hand reports?
>
> I'm particularly interested in whether:
>
> (a) I can stick a hub on the ethernet port and plug multiple
devices
> in to the bridge. If so do they appear as part of the same subnet
as
> the remote access point, or is there some NAT type jiggery pokery?
>
> (b) Whether these will interoperate with an Orinocco access point
ok
> (I know that Linksys -routers- will only bridge with Linksys
routers;
> not sure if the same is true of the -bridge- product, and the
linksys
> web site is AWOL atm).
>
> (c) Whether the RF performance is up to scratch?
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick