newbie: wap54g

Hi,

I have a WRT54G that is located on one side of my house, (where the cable
modem is). On the other side of my house I have a weak signal. I have a
WAP54g ordered from buy.com, and is on the way. I have also ran a cat5 drop
from my WRT54G into the attact just above my bedroom. I've seen people on
the board about using the WAP54g to act as a repeater by trying to pick up
the signal from the router, but what I was wanting to do is connect my AP
directly to my router over the cat5 cable to provide signal to the other
side of the house. Do I have this right? Or did I purchase the wrong
equipment?

Thanks,

Kevin

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 12:53:22 GMT, Kevin Wyrick spoketh

>Hi,
>
>I have a WRT54G that is located on one side of my house, (where the cable
>modem is). On the other side of my house I have a weak signal. I have a
>WAP54g ordered from buy.com, and is on the way. I have also ran a cat5 drop
>from my WRT54G into the attact just above my bedroom. I've seen people on
>the board about using the WAP54g to act as a repeater by trying to pick up
>the signal from the router, but what I was wanting to do is connect my AP
>directly to my router over the cat5 cable to provide signal to the other
>side of the house. Do I have this right? Or did I purchase the wrong
>equipment?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>

You got the right product.

Lars M. Hansen
http://www.hansenonline.net
(replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

Thank you very much Lars.

Kevin

"Lars M. Hansen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 12:53:22 GMT, Kevin Wyrick spoketh
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a WRT54G that is located on one side of my house, (where the cable
> >modem is). On the other side of my house I have a weak signal. I have a
> >WAP54g ordered from buy.com, and is on the way. I have also ran a cat5
drop
> >from my WRT54G into the attact just above my bedroom. I've seen people
on
> >the board about using the WAP54g to act as a repeater by trying to pick
up
> >the signal from the router, but what I was wanting to do is connect my AP
> >directly to my router over the cat5 cable to provide signal to the other
> >side of the house. Do I have this right? Or did I purchase the wrong
> >equipment?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Kevin
> >
>
> You got the right product.
>
> Lars M. Hansen
> http://www.hansenonline.net
> (replace 'badnews' with 'news' in e-mail address)

> > >I have a WRT54G that is located on one side of my house, (where the
cable
> > >modem is). On the other side of my house I have a weak signal. I have
a
> > >WAP54g ordered from buy.com, and is on the way. I have also ran a cat5
> drop
> > >from my WRT54G into the attact just above my bedroom. I've seen people
> on
> > >the board about using the WAP54g to act as a repeater by trying to pick
> up
> > >the signal from the router, but what I was wanting to do is connect my
AP
> > >directly to my router over the cat5 cable to provide signal to the
other
> > >side of the house. Do I have this right? Or did I purchase the wrong
> > >equipment?

Set your two routers to two different channels at least 5 channels apart
(1,6,11) so your routers don't interfere with other.