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

[terry]

On 5/29/07, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com> wrote:
> MadHat:
>
> What is the difference in the operation of a wireless
> access point and a bridge?  They seem the same to me.
>
> Thanks,
>         Neil
>

A wireless bridge contains a radio transceiver and an ethernet network
interface and bridges traffic from the radio to the ethernet network
device.

A wireless Access-Point contains a radio transceiver and an ethernet
network interface and bridges the 2way traffic between the radio
transceiver and the ethernet network device(s) (usually more than
one), but it also contains a router that accepts a network connection
from the WAN (wide area network), and routes (usually via Network
Address Translation), to [and from] any computers or devices connected
the other ethernet network devices [connected to the ports labeled
LAN], AND ALSO to any wireless devices,  (bridges and / or other such
wireless network interface devices), connected via RF.

If you take this Access-Point [and turn off the DHCP server which is
usually on by default] and move the ethernet cable that is connected
to the outside network from the WAN port to one of the LAN ports, what
you end up with is a wireless hub or wireless switch, (which ever the
case may be).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of MadHat Unspecific
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:44 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> 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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> > From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
> Behalf
> > Of Richard Geoffrion
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 8:41 AM
> > To: NTLUG Discussion List
> > 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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