Can an AP be used as a "repeater?"

I have the classic problem - the DSL router is upstairs, and the wireless
client is downstairs in my office, which is at the other end of the
house.... But it gets worse - my office has a brick wall blocking the
signal, too!

Can I put an access point in the attic upstairs, above my office, catching
the signal from the wireless router in the upstairs room next to the attic
and thereby make the signal easily available in my office just below?

Will an AP do this, acting as a bridge or repeater or whatever you would
call it...?

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~Ike

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:08:55 GMT, "Ike" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have the classic problem - the DSL router is upstairs, and the wireless
>client is downstairs in my office, which is at the other end of the
>house.... But it gets worse - my office has a brick wall blocking the
>signal, too!
>
>Can I put an access point in the attic upstairs, above my office, catching
>the signal from the wireless router in the upstairs room next to the attic
>and thereby make the signal easily available in my office just below?
>
>Will an AP do this, acting as a bridge or repeater or whatever you would
>call it...?

An AP is not a fully wireless repeater or bridge. It needs to be cabled to a
host appliance (router, switch, whatever).

Unless the AP is *cabled* to the router, you're not going to get anything
useful out of it. If you *do* cable it to the router, it will do what you need
just fine...

/daytripper