ap to ap to laptop question

Hi anyone, I have a remote piece of property a mountain between me an
the city. I am only in the planning stage, and I am working this ou
legally, so no real issues here. Plus it only about 5 miles. So m
question is regarding ap to ap setup

Whats the difference between ap client and ap bridge? What I want is

1) on the mountain put up a passive repeater (yagi/parabolic,pringle
whatever). One to the city and the other to my property

2) on my property have an antenna, which is attached to a local AP o
my property, pointing to the mountain

So what I want to do is have my laptop communicate via wireless to m
local AP, and any other computers I allow, (preferably doing dhcp, nat
firewalling, etc for my side), and have my local AP acting as a clien
to the city AP passing along my traffic as if I was in the mai
building in the city

What do I use for an AP on my property that will act as a normal AP fo
my laptop, but also act as client for the AP in the city? And if
have the local antenna attached to the local AP (pointing to th
mountain), do I also nee
another antenna for my local communications

Thanks so much
Te

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teksaport <teksaport.1mi40a@wifi-forum_dot_com> wrote:
> 1) on the mountain put up a passive repeater (yagi/parabolic,pringles
> whatever). One to the city and the other to my property.

You could put an active repeater up there with solar power.

> 2) on my property have an antenna, which is attached to a local AP on
> my property, pointing to the mountain.

> What do I use for an AP on my property that will act as a normal AP for
> my laptop, but also act as client for the AP in the city? And if I
> have the local antenna attached to the local AP (pointing to the
> mountain), do I also need
> another antenna for my local communications?

"WDS" is probably the buzzword you are looking for in the special AP.
WAP54G might do just that, but not with stock software, you would need
aftermarket software.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?J3EF210CA is about this topic.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ernet.wireless
search for BRIDGE AND REPEATER to find 137 threads.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8,-122.5