2 WAPs, No wired LAN?

[mooseAndSquirrel]

I have a buddy who has a cable modem connected to a Linksys wireless access point. He can't get coverage everywhere in his house. I know he can connect another WAP if he had a wired LAN connecting the 2, but don't know if you can just have another WAP talking to the original WAP (god but language has gotten so screwy) without a wired ethernet connection.

Can he? If so, is there anything special he needs to do with the setup?

thanks!

 

[rw120555]

Jackmds has a nice faq on wireless modes here. One approach would be to get a WAP that can serve as a repeater. When using WAPs in nonstandard ways, it seems to work best if you stick with the same brand of equipment.

There are various other ways, such as using phoneline or powerline. Phoneline or powerline basically gives you a wired lan connection (albeit slower and perhaps less reliable than CAT5) which you can then plug a WAP into. I basically use phoneline to acheive what you want, but I don't think there are many like me.

Another alternative is to consider an antenna. For example, Linksys has a wireless signal booster for their 802.11b products.