wireless access point?

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After configuration of a wap54g does it still have to be connected to the
wired network for it to function?

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Jim Orfanakos wrote:
> Not sure what you are trying to accomplish - but the WAP54G is
> basically a "wireless hub".
>
> If you disconnected it from the wired network - how would clients /
> pc using it access anything?
>
wirelessly??? I don't know. That is why I am asking. I thought it would
get the signal from my wrt54g.

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"madi" <madison9x@nospammsn.com> wrote in message
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> madi wrote:
> > Jim Orfanakos wrote:
> >> Not sure what you are trying to accomplish - but the WAP54G is
> >> basically a "wireless hub".
> >>
> >> If you disconnected it from the wired network - how would clients /
> >> pc using it access anything?
> >>
> > wirelessly??? I don't know. That is why I am asking. I thought it
> > would get the signal from my wrt54g.
>
> I'm trying to extend my wireless capability around the corner and down the
> hall to reach a gaming adapter in a back bedroom and thought a wireless
> access point halfway would do it.

Can we assume that the gaming adapter will not connect to the WRT54G ?

What you are looking for is a repeater - something that will extend the
original WRT54G signal.

The WAP54G is an access point - designed to plug into a network, and extend
that network to wireless clients. I do not believe the WAP54G will act as a
repeater. Some D-Link models do.

You may consider upgrading the antenna on the WRT54G and / or the gaming
adapter.

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madi wrote:

>After configuration of a wap54g does it still have to be connected to the
>wired network for it to function?
>
No. My friend has a Roadrunner supplied modem and a WRT54G connected to
the modem. He connected a PC to the WRT54G for setup purposes, then
moved the same PC to another room and used a WUSB54G adapter to access
the modem/router in the other room. So the RR modem and the WRT54G
router are in one room, and the PC with the WUSB54G adapter is in
another room. There are no hardwired PCs in the network.


--
Bill

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bryan wrote:
> "madi" <madison9x@nospammsn.com> wrote in message
> news:5a%ac.17213$Lz3.6553@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
>> madi wrote:
>>> Jim Orfanakos wrote:
>>>> Not sure what you are trying to accomplish - but the WAP54G is
>>>> basically a "wireless hub".
>>>>
>>>> If you disconnected it from the wired network - how would clients /
>>>> pc using it access anything?
>>>>
>>> wirelessly??? I don't know. That is why I am asking. I thought it
>>> would get the signal from my wrt54g.
>>
>> I'm trying to extend my wireless capability around the corner and
>> down the hall to reach a gaming adapter in a back bedroom and
>> thought a wireless access point halfway would do it.
>
> you need to configure the wap54g as a repeater... check this page out:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ypwbs
>
> hth

Thank you for this link.

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"Bill Schnakenberg" <willshak@hvc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> madi wrote:
>
> >After configuration of a wap54g does it still have to be connected to the
> >wired network for it to function?
> >
> No. My friend has a Roadrunner supplied modem and a WRT54G connected to
> the modem. He connected a PC to the WRT54G for setup purposes, then
> moved the same PC to another room and used a WUSB54G adapter to access
> the modem/router in the other room. So the RR modem and the WRT54G
> router are in one room, and the PC with the WUSB54G adapter is in
> another room. There are no hardwired PCs in the network.
>

What is different in your example is that WRT54G is the wireless
router/access point, and the WUSB54G is a wireless client. That is the way
it is supposed to work. He is not talking about wired PC's - but wired
access points.

In the original post, he has a WRT54G, and a wireless client far away not
getting signal. What he wanted / needed was something in the middle that
would pickup the signal from the WRT54G and re-transmit the signal to the
wireless client.