[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Connect desktop to wireless using a hub?

[Neil Aggarwal]

MadHat:

What is the difference in the operation of a wireless
access point and a bridge?  They seem the same to me.

Thanks,
	Neil

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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Connect desktop to wireless using a hub?

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Richard:
> 
> That is exactly what I am talking about.
> 
> I have an old Hawking WA300 Access Point
> which I should be able to do the same thing with.
> 
> What settings did you have to put on your WAP54G?

Wireless bridge mode is what I have used before, but newer devices don't 
support this anymore.

> 
> Thanks,
> 	Neil 
> 
> 
> 
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> Of Richard Geoffrion
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:41 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Connect desktop to wireless using a hub?
> 
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> Since a wireless hub connects an ethernet on one side to
>> a wireless network on the other, is it possible to 
>> connect a desktop machine to a hub to enable it to
>> get onto the wireless network?
>>
>>   
> 
> I know not of this "wireless hub" of which you speak, but I have 
> connected a desktop to a WAP54G ...which in turn communicated with a 
> WRT54G and thus the rest of the 'wired' network.
> 


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