I am trying to get a wireless network set up in my apartment. The apartment owner provides internet access to the ethernet jacks in every room. I was originally running a Linksys WRT54G in access point mode from the ethernet port in one of the rooms, but it turns out the apartment manager limits bandwidth to each IP address on the network. So when we all use the wireless at the same time (from a router with one IP), we hit the bandwidth ceiling and we all lose the ability to load pages. I called the apartment complex's tech support, and they suggested running the router in wireless ethernet bridge mode so that the building's main router (wired) will assign IP addresses and my router will just broadcast the signal wirelessly.
I have the tomato firmware for the router, so I have been playing around with the wireless ethernet bridge option, but every time I enable it I lose wireless connectivity all together (network is gone from list). Am I doing this right, or should I be approaching this issue another way? All that I have read about wireless ethernet bridges seem to go from wireless router to another wireless router, whereas I want to go from wired to wireless without forcing all the computers in the apartment from being assigned under one IP address.
Thanks!
I have the tomato firmware for the router, so I have been playing around with the wireless ethernet bridge option, but every time I enable it I lose wireless connectivity all together (network is gone from list). Am I doing this right, or should I be approaching this issue another way? All that I have read about wireless ethernet bridges seem to go from wireless router to another wireless router, whereas I want to go from wired to wireless without forcing all the computers in the apartment from being assigned under one IP address.
Thanks!