Connecting a wireless segment

[board2death986]

Alright so I have a small network in my room, about 30ft away from my wireless router in the living room, and all of my devices are connected to a gigabit switch. At the moment I have two of those devices each with their own wireless adapter, but I want to connect all the devices with the internet.


Would connecting the swich to a wireless AP do the job? I cannot run a physical line to the router, so i'm looking for the easiest way to go with this.

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16833156232

 

[RavenD]

Should work. If you have dhcp on your wired lan, disable it on the wireless router, and plug the router's lan into your switch.

 

[ICE_9]

Use ICS on one of the wireless computers connected to the switch. Make sure it is the only thing doing DHCP on the switch.

 

[marley1]

run a wire.......

 

[board2death986]

run a wire.......

uh read the post buddy, I said I CANT run a physical line. But ok if you need reasons fine;

It's not my house, and I don't have permission to drill holes and run a physical line to my room. I would just run one along the floor, but that's more of a weekend solution, and since I have 2 dogs that wouldn't end very well.

I'm asking to find out the easiest option BESIDES running a line across the house.

 

[marley1]

so then BUDDY!!!!!!!!

grab a 2nd router capable of dd-wrt or tomato, flash it, flash both routers would be better, and set it up as wireless bridge.

 

[Captain Colonoscopy]

You will need to do more than simply plug in a wireless router to the switch. Your best bet will be to either buy a couple APs that support WDS or bridging and add them to your network. The buffalo WHR-G54S and WHR-G54S-HP support WDS and client bridging out of the box without the need for DD-WRT. Good luck finding them right now though......