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We have a cisco 1720 t1 router for our office internet connection that ties to a firewall pc, and I have been asked to install a wireless connection between the router and firewall pc.

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connect an accespoint to the router and plug in a wifi card/usb dongle to the firewall pc..

easiest way i can think of :)

Reply to Scene
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so you dont want this wireless connection to be firewalled at all correct?



Scene I dont think he ment to make the firewall pc wireless.

Reply to sturm
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i think he ment he needed help how to set up a wireless connection between his router and firewall pc :P

Reply to Scene
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connecting them by wireless would be counter-productive. Hed be cutting his bandwidth down so much. Not to mention adding in a security risk if its not secured properly.
I guess well have to wait till he responds back.

Reply to sturm
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Its only a T1, not much bandwidth to begin with so wireless sure wont hurt it ;)

The most transparent way to do it would be to get two wireless accesspoints, bridge them, and put crossovercables from one accesspoint to the router's lan interface and the other accesspoint to the firewall pc's lan interface.

That would physically remove the wire between the router and firewall pc without having to change any settings on either of them.
You could probably even use an 802.11b bridge without bandwidth loss but 802.11g is more common now so you might as well use that.

Reply to folken
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I was looking to create a wireless connection before my firewall pc for internet use.

Reply to mt1961
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Then you could make the accesspoint on the router side just a regular accesspoint (might want to use a router instead to get dhcp, unless you want to use statics). Then get something like the Buffalo WLA2-G54C to repeat the wireless signal to the lan port of the firewall pc. Might as well get the Buffalo WLA2-G54L to be the router/ap for the router side in that case...

Transparent wireless between the router and firewall pc with wireless internet access inbetween.

I have those two buffalo components wirelessly bridging two sites at work and they work wonderfully. I get a little over 3mb/s solid through it and there are at least 50 computers connecting to our main network over it. Havent had to reset it once sofar.

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