Can a router receive as well as send?

I have a small LAN in the house, including a wireless router so I can wander
around with my laptop. Now, I want to hook up another LAN in another part
of the house, and for various reasons cabling won't work. So I'm wondering,
can I hook up another LAN (cabled) in the other part of the house, and
include in that second LAN a wireless router, and be able to access the
Internet (which is hooked into the primary LAN) from the secondary LAN?

(assuming the usual issues like the wireless routers are close enough to
maintain a signal)


Thanks!
Chris

Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:
> can I hook up another LAN (cabled) in the other part of the house, and
> include in that second LAN a wireless router, and be able to access the
> Internet (which is hooked into the primary LAN) from the secondary LAN?

Yes, you can.

A friend of mine did that with a Linksys router, on which he had
installed OpenWRT. I don't know whether there are routers which support
that out-ot-the-box, maybe a WLan repeater could do the trick as well.

Regards,
Michael

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:42:45 -0600, Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:

> I have a small LAN in the house, including a wireless router so I can wander
> around with my laptop. Now, I want to hook up another LAN in another part
> of the house, and for various reasons cabling won't work. So I'm wondering,
> can I hook up another LAN (cabled) in the other part of the house, and
> include in that second LAN a wireless router, and be able to access the
> Internet (which is hooked into the primary LAN) from the secondary LAN?
>

The Linksys WAP54G Wireless-G Access Point can do this when configured
as a bridge. You will need two. See my review at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-...stRecentReview

Other access points may be able to do the same thing. Look for "bridge" or
"bridge mode". Or maybe you can buy a pair of dedicated wireless bridges.

rcp

Chris Shearer Cooper wrote:
> I have a small LAN in the house, including a wireless router so I can wander
> around with my laptop. Now, I want to hook up another LAN in another part
> of the house, and for various reasons cabling won't work. So I'm wondering,
> can I hook up another LAN (cabled) in the other part of the house, and
> include in that second LAN a wireless router, and be able to access the
> Internet (which is hooked into the primary LAN) from the secondary LAN?
>
> (assuming the usual issues like the wireless routers are close enough to
> maintain a signal)

Not sure what you mean but I've just got a Netgear DG834G and it has
a mysterious 'repeater' facility which might be what you are after.


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