Hell Everyone!

I was wondering if i can use a wireless Cable/DSL router as an access point? i mean instead of buying an wireless access point, can i jus put an ethernet wire from my 24 port switch to the router and my laptop can connect with it wirelessly?

You can uplink your switch to the router and connect to the pc's on the switch from your wireless laptop, yes... but you'll need a crossover ethernet cable - or if your switch has an uplink port that can do the crossover electronically you can use that.

Wireless connections and the ethernet ports on the back of the router (these are either hub or switch ports, depending on the model) are not divided by the router, they are considered to be on the same physical segment and pass broadcast traffic. Wireless routers only divide the "cable/dsl" port from the rest of the network (wireless and switch/hub ports).

Here's a picture. http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N101236.asp

Might search posts next time since this question was answered just a few posts down here

http://www.computing.net/networking/wwwboard/forum/29493.html

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Whta would you recommend i get a wireless router or a wirless access point?

can someone please advice me if its better to get an access point or a wireless router?

Which is cheaper?
Which has more flexibility?

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A wireless access point is designed for just what it sounds like; a wireless access point to the network. It can't provide internet access to the network via your dsl or cable modem like a router can.

A wireless router is designed to allow your wireless & wired computers to access another network (usually always an internet connection) and to provide network access translation (sort of like a firewall) to hide your computers from the other network or internet. Some wireless routers include additional firewall features such as SPI (stateful packet inspection) which checks the packets as they come in to ensure that its not someone tunneling unwanted data through an open port that was designed for something else.

I know I might be going a little too deep with this than you'd like. So basically the choice is based upon what you want to do with it. If you already have a router connected to the network that provides your internet access, or if your modem is also a router, then you could survive with just the wireless access point as you wouldn't be utilizing its routing features.

If however, you only have internet access on one of your pc's, or if you're sharing that connection from that one pc to the others, get the wireless router. You can then connect the modem to the wireless router and provide internet access to the others without a "server pc" being on.

The cost is usually about the same for a wireless router versus an access point, in some cases the access points cost more due to the demand for the routers. If I was you, I'd get the router regardless of your needs just so that you could use it's routing functions later if you chose to do so.

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Thats whats kind of advice i was looking for "Firecodex" just for another person backing me up buying another wireless router regardless....! Thanx Mate!

backing me up on the idea of****