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I have a rather long apartment with some major wireless deadzones and I am trying to get wireless internet access in one of the dead zones. What I would like to do is to run a wired bridge from the router to the front room, and then broadcast a signal from there. So it goes router-->wired Bridge--> rebroadcast. I do not like the idea of a wireless to wireless bridge.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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So most existing routers can do this? Or just most bridges can do this, I mean it seems pretty basic but all the advertising and over views seems to tout the wireless to wireless methodology.
 
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Wire less to wireless is not really very good. It drops some times, and halfs your speed, because the 2 wireless connections cant talk to each other in duplex.

If you have an old wireless router you can do the same thing, by simply plugging the old rounter into the new one, and setting the old routers default gateway to the same ip as the main router.
 
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I've done the same thing in my place. In the living room I have a Cisco/Linksys E3200 Router hooked into my cable modem. I have a 250 foot Cat 5e cable running along the floorboard to my bedroom where it is hooked to a Cisco/Linksys E2500. The E2500 is set up as a bridge and the E3200 is a router with DNS service. Each router is set up to broadcast a unique signal. I varied the frequencies so they'd be as far away from eachother as possible. The wireless network name on both is the same and the password is the same. Whenever I am closer to one router or the other the wireless devices switch seamlessly to the one with the strongest signal.
 
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Its easy and there are guides out their for your specific router. Basic steps are
From main router log in and get the routers IP address. Not the internet ip but the routers. (Something simple like 192.168.1.1)
Plug old router into a pc so you can access it
Disable DHCP, you want the main routers DHCP.
Set old routers IP to same digit range, (like 192.168.1.2)
Subnet mask on both routers should be the same 255.255.255.0

Now run a cat 5 from the one of the computer ports on the main router into the WAN port on the old ap router.
Turn it on and hope for the best.

I read an article on DSLreports.com about this a while back. It was very detailed.
 
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