inexpensive LAN (not WAN) bridge

I manage a simple wired ethernet WAN on a volunteer base, and would like to
add a 802.11b/g bridge to let me connect with my laptop using its wifi, rather
than to plug into one of the hubs.

The bridge would connect through an ethernet cable to one of the hub/switches.

However, from what I've found, most inexpensive bridges have only one ethernet
socket, and want to use it to connect to a WAN through a modem, not to a LAN.
They sometimes let you use it to connect to a LAN, but only if they are set as
a remote -- which only works if there is already a base station, in which case
I wouldn't need this bridge.

So any suggestions to get such a bridge to work in conjunction with a purposly
internet-deprived, wired LAN, without paying too much?

why not just use an Access Point?

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>I manage a simple wired ethernet WAN on a volunteer base, and would like to
> add a 802.11b/g bridge to let me connect with my laptop using its wifi,
> rather
> than to plug into one of the hubs.
>
> The bridge would connect through an ethernet cable to one of the
> hub/switches.
>
> However, from what I've found, most inexpensive bridges have only one
> ethernet
> socket, and want to use it to connect to a WAN through a modem, not to a
> LAN.
> They sometimes let you use it to connect to a LAN, but only if they are
> set as
> a remote -- which only works if there is already a base station, in which
> case
> I wouldn't need this bridge.
>
> So any suggestions to get such a bridge to work in conjunction with a
> purposly
> internet-deprived, wired LAN, without paying too much?

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 02:59:48 GMT, "Robert Jacobs"
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|why not just use an Access Point?

Because until your message thought Access Points required WAN connection
because I was misled, and after your reply I did some more searching.

That may be the answer that I needed, thanks. Not quite as portable as an
Airport Express, but one of those will probably do.

if you really don't need tiny
some of the g routers are rebated right now to the $20 area
uplink like a switch, disable dhcp, fixed ip and its now an AP/switch

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> On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 02:59:48 GMT, "Robert Jacobs"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> |why not just use an Access Point?
>
> Because until your message thought Access Points required WAN connection
> because I was misled, and after your reply I did some more searching.
>
> That may be the answer that I needed, thanks. Not quite as portable as
an
> Airport Express, but one of those will probably do.