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Use Linksys Router as a Bridge?
Name: NTL1991 Date: August 28, 2006 at 19:12:34 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Duron 900/768MB Product: Compaq Presario 5UVME2
Comment:
Hello. My home is already wireless. I use a D-Link Wireless-G Router to send out my Cable Internet to the computers in my home. I have one computer, though, that I do not have a Wireless Adapter for. My question is, can I configure my Old Linksys BEFW11S4 v4 Wireless-B router to RECIEVE the internet from the D-Link Router, and then send the connection through the Ethernet Connections to my PC without the Wireless Adapter... Kinda like a Bridge?
Name: Bob587819 Date: August 29, 2006 at 03:25:49 Pacific
Reply:
According to Google that router has Four LAN ports so simply connect one to your PC, set up the NIC to DHCP and away you go. Bob.
That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: August 29, 2006 at 09:27:35 Pacific
Reply:
NTL1991's question was how to use a wireless router as a wireless card.
Can't do it unless you can find a hacked version of the router bios software that can put the router into bridge mode [if it is even possible with that model]. They do make wireless bridges which would meet your criteria.
Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.
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