Considering adding a wireless access point to an existing hard wired Lynksys set up. Looking for an easy to set up and configure access point, not another router if it can be helped. Just looking for suggestions. Thanks. Larry Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. -

Take a look at the LinkSys WAP200 AP.

By definition, an Access Point will be a "router". It has to "route" network traffic to a unique group of hosts. You could create a wireless link from an existing router to a specific host, but if your AP will be serving multiple hosts, then it will be a router.

The WAP200 AP is what I'm looking for. But I was also looking for favorites of others here. Some people like Netgear and others Belkin. Just wanted to get a loose idea of what seems to work best. Looked at the Apple Airports bu seems like the useful life happens to be about 15 months. Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. -

Can consider Linksys WAP54G wireless access point also..

By definition, an Access Point will be a "router". It has to "route" network traffic to a unique group of hosts. You could create a wireless link from an existing router to a specific host, but if your AP will be serving multiple hosts, then it will be a router. Not to be rude, or contrary for the sake of being contrary, but you are mistaken pyro. By definition, an access point (AP) is an AP and a router is a router. They are two entirely different devices. AP's do not route traffic.....period. What they do is offer a wireless signal (ie: point of access) to users with wireless capable devices and give them access to the network. Where I work, we have our AP's plugged into our managed switches. The ports they plug into a configured for DHCP (if it matters, non-routable private Class C addressing scheme while the rest of our network uses routable [ie: non-private] Class B addresses). Neither the AP's nor the switches do any routing....that's handled by our routers. AP's do not route traffic because that service was never built into them. It's also worth noting that each and every AP we use are capable of offering the wireless network (signal) to multiple clients at the same time. AP to client is not a 1 to 1 ratio but a 1 to many (ie: 1 AP to many clients). If they were a 1 to 1 ration, they wouldn't be worth the trouble or expense as it would cost too much to create a wireless network. As much as I'd prefer it were otherwise, we're presently using SOHO level AP's because our 'enterprise wireless' project has been put on hold (several times) due to other more important projects. It's my sincere hope that within the next 12 months we will have deployed our final, enterprise wireless solution. Seawatch: I didn't mention the SOHO level AP's were presently using because they suck. As surprised as I am to say it, they're D-Link DWL 2200AP models. I've had a lot of them break down for no particular reason and wouldn't recommend them. This is a surprise to me because I've been very happy with every other D-Link product I've ever used....and I've used/bought quite a few over the years.

Thanks Curt R, for several things. I was going to address pyro's misinformation, but decided to let it go. I've had the same problem with others D-Link systems and this was the kind of input I was looking for. I like Lynksys, but have had some problems with overheating/dying i the pas, but I think I might go that way and take my chances. Again, thanks for your input. Larry Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. -