wireless topology suggestions

I have my home LAN setup as follows:

Downstairs, I have a machine hooked directly to a D-Link Wireless
54G router (hooked directly to a cable modem).

A cable runs from the router all the way up the stairs to a 5 port
switch, which then connects to my main desktop machine, my secondary
machine, and my mail server.

My laptop is the only machine that connects via wireless.

I would like to get rid of the long cable that runs from the router
to my switch upstairs and connect to it wirelessly. Would I just
buy an AP and connect it to the uplink port on the switch and that's
it?

Thanks,
Aaron

Yes you could, or a wireless bridge .

The linksys access points have a 'client' mode - you need to make sure that
whatever you are buying has that mode. The linksys wet stuff is for just
this. Dlink also has the dwl-g810 which looks like it does what you want.
(or dwl810 for 11mb 802.11b)


"Aaron Walker" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have my home LAN setup as follows:
>
> Downstairs, I have a machine hooked directly to a D-Link Wireless
> 54G router (hooked directly to a cable modem).
>
> A cable runs from the router all the way up the stairs to a 5 port
> switch, which then connects to my main desktop machine, my secondary
> machine, and my mail server.
>
> My laptop is the only machine that connects via wireless.
>
> I would like to get rid of the long cable that runs from the router
> to my switch upstairs and connect to it wirelessly. Would I just
> buy an AP and connect it to the uplink port on the switch and that's
> it?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>

Aaron Walker wrote:
> I have my home LAN setup as follows:
>
> Downstairs, I have a machine hooked directly to a D-Link Wireless

> 54G router (hooked directly to a cable modem).
>
> A cable runs from the router all the way up the stairs to a 5 port
> switch, which then connects to my main desktop machine, my secondary
> machine, and my mail server.
>
> My laptop is the only machine that connects via wireless.
>
> I would like to get rid of the long cable that runs from the router
> to my switch upstairs and connect to it wirelessly. Would I just
> buy an AP and connect it to the uplink port on the switch and that's
> it?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>

The Linksys Wet11 Wireless Bridge is what you need. It will
plug into your upstars switch, and then connect wirelessly to
your downstairs wireless router. The the nice thing about the
Wet11 is that it can handle like 50 clients or so if I remember
correctly ...



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