Subject: Installing Access Points on a wired and wireless network
terobertson
Newbie
Posts: 1 Registered: 26/6/08 Status: Offline
posted on 26/6/08 at 06:26
Hi,
I've just moved into a new house that has a wired network running to every
room.
I wanted to plug my existing wireless router (Sky) into the living room
where the telephone line is, and wondered if I could buy an access point to
plug into the kitchen hardwired network point so I could get wireless in
the garden.
I assume this is technically possible, but wondered if the access point I
needed would differ. I won't need the access point in the kitchen to
connect to my exisiting wireless router via wireless. But I will need it to
pick up the internet, pass it through the wired network and then broadcast
it wirelessly (on the same network) to the kitchen and garden.
Any advice and recommendations on equipment would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Terry.
Fellsider
Full Member
Posts: 72 Registered: 11/11/04 Status: Offline
posted on 30/6/08 at 15:50
You have kit which is wireless and provides coverage to the kitchen,
however it wont reach the garden? It also has an ethernet port(s), which
you have pluged into the existing house network, making Internet available
on a wired port in the kitchen?
If so, use your laptop to configure any AP to create a second wireless zone
from the network port in the kitchen. With a network name, security, and on
a channle of your choice.
Or Choose an AP with "Universal repeater" mode and use it with no
connection to it's ethernet port to extend the coverage of your existing
wireless zone.
In both sugestions be awear that Pilkington K glass (kitchen window?) has a
similar effect on WiFi as a brick wall and coverage outside may be limited.
