Connecting two AP's in the same room.

In an effort to keep miles (okay, yards) of Ethernet cable off my floor, I've
decided to set my Dell (which is on the other side of the room) up to a
wireless router/AP and get it to talk to the wireless router on the other side
of the room. I've hit a snag, though, and the two AP's aren't talking to each
other. Just to get this out of the way, both AP's are the BWA611* from
iBlitzz.

Here's what I know. Both AP's work. I can get my PocketPC to talk to both of
them (not at the same time), and I can type in their IP's to get to the
configuration menu. I know they are on the same Class-C IP address, because I
changed them both. I know the ESSID, Channel ID, and Transfer Rate for both of
them are the same; the device names and IP's, however, are different. I also
don't have any encryption on either (for now), so I don't think that's a
problem.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my two AP's to talk? Can two AP's
talk to each other, or do I need to put a wireless card in my PC and let it
bridge the two networks? My Windows machine, which I would have to put the
wireless PCI card into, has no spare slots. If I could avoid having such a
bridge, it would be great.

Any help would be hot and very much appreciated.

(*Here's the url for my AP's:
http://www.iblitzz.com/Product/spec.asp?mn=BWA611)


Andrew Burton - tuglyraisin at aol dot com
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Andrew Burton wrote:
> In an effort to keep miles (okay, yards) of Ethernet cable off my floor, I've
> decided to set my Dell (which is on the other side of the room) up to a
> wireless router/AP and get it to talk to the wireless router on the other side
> of the room. I've hit a snag, though, and the two AP's aren't talking to each
> other. Just to get this out of the way, both AP's are the BWA611* from
> iBlitzz.
>
> Here's what I know. Both AP's work. I can get my PocketPC to talk to both of
> them (not at the same time), and I can type in their IP's to get to the
> configuration menu. I know they are on the same Class-C IP address, because I
> changed them both. I know the ESSID, Channel ID, and Transfer Rate for both of
> them are the same; the device names and IP's, however, are different. I also
> don't have any encryption on either (for now), so I don't think that's a
> problem.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get my two AP's to talk? Can two AP's
> talk to each other, or do I need to put a wireless card in my PC and let it
> bridge the two networks? My Windows machine, which I would have to put the
> wireless PCI card into, has no spare slots. If I could avoid having such a
> bridge, it would be great.
>
> Any help would be hot and very much appreciated.
>
> (*Here's the url for my AP's:
> http://www.iblitzz.com/Product/spec.asp?mn=BWA611)
>
>
> Andrew Burton - tuglyraisin at aol dot com
> Felecia Station on Harvestgain - http://www.darkbeast.com/
> (setq line "I will not tie up my muse.")
> (defun punish (x) (if (> x 0) (progn (format t "~A~%" line) (punish (- x 1)))))
> (punish 500)

Not familiar with that exact brand/model, but if you can put one of the
AP's into "client-bridge" mode or words to that effect, then one
continues acting as access point, the other is now a client of that
access point.