I have been unsuccessfully trying to setup a wireless bridge between my lan and my neighbor's lan for the last week or so. I bought some wireless routers and nics for fairly cheap and just started messing around with them and found out quite a lot about what I really cannot do. What I originally wanted to do was put a wireless router (not using it as a router, just as access point actually) in my neighbors house and then put a wireless nic and a wired nic in a PC at my place to act as a bridge. I should be able to do the bridging with either WinXP or Linux, but the wireless NIC I am using does not seem to support bridging. So I have to scrap that idea. My next plan is to buy a wireless bridge like the Linksys WET11 and since I was able to get bridging to work on my PC with two wired nics I could hook one of those into the wireless bridge which would in turn link up with the wireless router at my neighbors. I know you can do this with two similar devices like the WET11, but I do not want to buy two of them as they are still very expensive.
My two main concerns are this: will it be ok that the other side of the wireless link is a cheap 4 port wireless router and not a bridge or an access point that does bridging?
Do I still need my PC on my end to act as an ethernet bridge with the two nics? Or could I just hook the WET11 into my ethernet switch?
Additionally: Does anyone know if my original plan would work if I just got a different wireless nic that supports bridging?
thanks for any help/comments.
My two main concerns are this: will it be ok that the other side of the wireless link is a cheap 4 port wireless router and not a bridge or an access point that does bridging?
Do I still need my PC on my end to act as an ethernet bridge with the two nics? Or could I just hook the WET11 into my ethernet switch?
Additionally: Does anyone know if my original plan would work if I just got a different wireless nic that supports bridging?
thanks for any help/comments.