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September 10, 2014 6:21:41 AM

Hi, not sure what i'm after here but it surely must exist.

I currently only have a standard router (NOT WIRELESS) which is fine for most of my pc's but i have a laptop which is wireless only, i have spare ethernet lines i can use but just need to convert the ethernet cable into a wireless signal. Most of the things ive seen online are plug powerline links, and the opposite of what i need (wireless to ethernet output/bridges).

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Peter

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a b F Wireless
September 10, 2014 6:28:40 AM

You need a wireless router that will give you both ethernet ports, and wireless.
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September 10, 2014 6:29:08 AM

access points do exactly this, or you can use a normal wi-fi router by plugging the wan port for it into a lan of the other router.
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a b F Wireless
September 10, 2014 6:40:25 AM

If you use a normal wireless router, you will want to do some things to make the transition painless.

1. When you first get the router connect a wired computer to it and configure it(setup wireless security/ect) and change the IP address to match the range of your current router. if you have 192.168.0.1, use 192.168.0.2. This makes future management more easy. Do this with JUST the new router connected to one of the wired systems.
2. Disable its built in HDCP(after this it will no longer give out IP addresses, so it has to be in the same range as your current router). Your normal router is already dealing with handing out IP addresses.
3. Use a LAN port on the wireless router not the WAN port like you would with a router and modem connection(this will allow a single network. the WAN port with DHCP would create a second network even if the ip rages did match).

So it would be a setup like this.

Modem[LAN/Ethernet] -> [WAN]Router[LAN] -> [LAN]Wireless Router[Wireless + LAN] -> Computers

As you can see you gain whatever extra LAN ports are free on the wireless router after as well.
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September 10, 2014 6:58:29 AM

D-Link DAP-1360
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TP-Link TL-WR702N

seem to do what i need

Thanks though
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a b F Wireless
September 10, 2014 12:15:06 PM

Either of those devices(both work as access points in this case) should work work fine.

I am not sure how much antenna room the TP-Link unit has seeing as it is so small.
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