Wireless bridge and DLNA

donoskaro

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Hello,
I have a question, will a wireless router with a USB port that's switched to the "Wireless Bridge" mode still share the connected device to the network?
Also will a router with a USB port work with DLNA devices?

Thanks
 
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Then your best solution would be to simply go to Walmart, Bestbuy, etc. and get USB WiFi sticks for them as the best solution, unless they are specialized devices (Blu-Ray player, etc.). Then yes you could put the router in bridge mode, which is really the same 'thing' as using the USB Wifi, but just dumbs down the router.
Wireless bridge means you just took a sledgehammer to the 'brains' of the router and made it 'dumb'. NOTHING will be 'processed' or 'work' on it, it just passes data along data with no 'thinking'. So that means NO you can't use the USB port or other functions the 'router' could provide.

Is there a reason your killing the brains of this router? What are you trying to accomplish?
 

donoskaro

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I'm trying to get Internet access for some non WiFi devices which are in a different room than the normal router.
 
Then your best solution would be to simply go to Walmart, Bestbuy, etc. and get USB WiFi sticks for them as the best solution, unless they are specialized devices (Blu-Ray player, etc.). Then yes you could put the router in bridge mode, which is really the same 'thing' as using the USB Wifi, but just dumbs down the router.
 
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