help: What should I buy?

Group,

I have 4 computers in one room, on one desk. The Cable modem/wireless
router is in another room. To hook up 4 computers, I will need to buy
4 wireless card.

Is there any device which will talk to wireless router wirelessly and
can hook 4 computers by wire?

Thanks very much for your help.

On 31 Aug 2006 10:17:33 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Group,
>
>I have 4 computers in one room, on one desk. The Cable modem/wireless
>router is in another room. To hook up 4 computers, I will need to buy
>4 wireless card.
>
>Is there any device which will talk to wireless router wirelessly and
>can hook 4 computers by wire?
>
>Thanks very much for your help.
2 access points will do that, but they are not cheap either. You plug
one access point into the router, the other access point gets the
computers plugged into it. The 2 access points talk to each other
wirelessly.

I think you might be able to use a wireless ethernet bridge along with
a hub or switch.
Can anyone validate this?

--Fritz

f/fgeorge wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2006 10:17:33 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >Group,
> >
> >I have 4 computers in one room, on one desk. The Cable modem/wireless
> >router is in another room. To hook up 4 computers, I will need to buy
> >4 wireless card.
> >
> >Is there any device which will talk to wireless router wirelessly and
> >can hook 4 computers by wire?
> >
> >Thanks very much for your help.
> 2 access points will do that, but they are not cheap either. You plug
> one access point into the router, the other access point gets the
> computers plugged into it. The 2 access points talk to each other
> wirelessly.

There is also the possibility of getting a wireless card for one of the
computers, and using Microsoft's "Internet Connection Sharing" (look it
up for details and easy setup), which is built in to 98/2000/XP.

I know this works. Only problem is that you will need to have the
'wireless' computer turned on for the others to get a connection. You
will also need an additional wired (ethernet) connection in the
wireless computer plus a hub or switch to connect the other wired
connections to your new subnet.


Fritz wrote:
> I think you might be able to use a wireless ethernet bridge along with
> a hub or switch.
> Can anyone validate this?
>
> --Fritz
>