wireless router to wireless router - can any consumer routers do

I have two home offices, and it would be nice to have a wireless
router in each office that has 4 ports that I can plug wired ethernet
connections into (or wired routers). One of the two offices has the
broadband connection (DSL).

I've been looking at the products sold by Best Buy and other stores,
and it is unclear what is the best way to do this.

For the remote office not connected directly to the broadband DSL
line, would it make any sense to use a real wired router and then
connect that wired router to a "wireless access point"? "wireless
bridge"? or ???

Chuck
Fri Apr 25 11:02:55 PDT 2008

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:07:01 -0700 (PDT), franzbrown@yahoo.com wrote:

>I have two home offices, and it would be nice to have a wireless
>router in each office that has 4 ports that I can plug wired ethernet
>connections into (or wired routers). One of the two offices has the
>broadband connection (DSL).
>
>I've been looking at the products sold by Best Buy and other stores,
>and it is unclear what is the best way to do this.
>
>For the remote office not connected directly to the broadband DSL
>line, would it make any sense to use a real wired router and then
>connect that wired router to a "wireless access point"? "wireless
>bridge"? or ???

A WiFi bridge is what you'll be setting up. Look for a router that will operate
in "client mode". The router connected to the DSL modem becomes the router, and
the other router becomes simply a bridge client.

If you don't get a router with "client mode", just setup a WiFi router as a
second router ("access point"), and connect the computers in the second office
to its Ethernet ports.
<http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html>
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/06/file-sharing-on-lan-with-two-routers.html

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Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/

franzbrown
Fri Apr 25 12:28:34 PDT 2008

Thanks Chuck,

Do you have any suggestions on what the best consumer wireless routers
are for under $150?

Jack
Fri Apr 25 14:11:48 PDT 2008

Hi
May be one of these options can help.
http://www.ezlan.net/bridging.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

<franzbrown@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e058b468-bcbc-47ab-80ad-68208bab659a@h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
>I have two home offices, and it would be nice to have a wireless
> router in each office that has 4 ports that I can plug wired ethernet
> connections into (or wired routers). One of the two offices has the
> broadband connection (DSL).
>
> I've been looking at the products sold by Best Buy and other stores,
> and it is unclear what is the best way to do this.
>
> For the remote office not connected directly to the broadband DSL
> line, would it make any sense to use a real wired router and then
> connect that wired router to a "wireless access point"? "wireless
> bridge"? or ???

Chuck
Fri Apr 25 16:09:14 PDT 2008

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:28:34 -0700 (PDT), franzbrown@yahoo.com wrote:

>Thanks Chuck,
>
>Do you have any suggestions on what the best consumer wireless routers
>are for under $150?

For WiFi brand advice, I'd go to microsoft. public. windows. networking,
wireless.
<http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless/topics?hl=en&lnk=gschg>
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless/topics?hl=en&lnk=gschg

Or maybe DSLR WiFi.
<http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan>
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan

I have a Zyxel P330W, which does support client mode and a few other features,
and I'm very happy with it. How many computers are we talking about? What
amount of networking activity?

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franzbrown
Fri Apr 25 16:26:27 PDT 2008

>
> For WiFi brand advice, I'd go to microsoft. public. windows. networking,
> wireless.
> <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wi...>=
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wi...
>
> Or maybe DSLR WiFi.
> <http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan=

>
> I have a Zyxel P330W, which does support client mode and a few other featu=
res,
> and I'm very happy with it. =A0How many computers are we talking about? =
=A0What
> amount of networking activity?

The most simultaneous active computers will be six.

Four computers in one office, and two in the other.

The most load I can think of will be two computers going to different
locations via VPN and then running Remote Desktop Connection over VPN
to do development, spreadsheets, accessing databases... working from
home / remotely.

Chuck
Fri Apr 25 18:45:32 PDT 2008

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:26:27 -0700 (PDT), franzbrown@yahoo.com wrote:

>>
>> For WiFi brand advice, I'd go to microsoft. public. windows. networking,
>> wireless.
>> <http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wi...>http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.networking.wi...
>>
>> Or maybe DSLR WiFi.
>> <http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/wlan
>>
>> I have a Zyxel P330W, which does support client mode and a few other features,
>> and I'm very happy with it.  How many computers are we talking about?  What
>> amount of networking activity?
>
>The most simultaneous active computers will be six.
>
>Four computers in one office, and two in the other.
>
>The most load I can think of will be two computers going to different
>locations via VPN and then running Remote Desktop Connection over VPN
>to do development, spreadsheets, accessing databases... working from
>home / remotely.

Residential quality (high residential quality though). Is your budget $150
total, or $300 total? I'd plan somewhere between the two, for decent quality.
If you're going to do VPN and WiFi, I'd consider getting 3 routers.
1) VPN / Broadband with good firewall.
2) WiFi bridge "server".
3) Wifi bridge "client".

Setting up a VPN is not a piece of cake, and figuring on running a VPN "server"
at the office (Router 1), you might want to keep that function separate from
WiFi (Routers 2 / 3).
<http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/12/using-internet-as-wan-link-use-vpn.html>
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/12/using-internet-as-wan-link-use-vpn.html

How far away are the two offices? What type of building, and how many floors /
walls separation?
<http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/10/wifi-will-never-be-as-fast-as-ethernet.html>
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2005/10/wifi-will-never-be-as-fast-as-ethernet.html

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Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/