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Article #389Re: Good wireless bridge?
From: James Knott
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:58
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:58
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Airhead wrote: >> So a router can be used in Client mode? It can talk to APs? > > Only if it supports AP Client Mode otherwise a wireless router AP > wont talk to another wireless router AP. The other issue is how many > MACs will an AP client pass.. 1 for sure, note the word client and not > clients. AP client mode is really acting as a wireless adapter > converting > a non-wireless device to wireless. Allot of devices such as myWAP54G > use WDS and has AP, Bridge, Repeater and Client mode. > Repeater mode and Client mode will talk to an AP, Bridge mode > talks to another bridge. FWIW, there are some Linksys models than run on Linux and can be configured to do things far beyond what the designers intended. There is even one package available, that's essentially a "hot spot in a box", for use in a coffee shop etc.
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