I read ur article Bridging 802.11 Networks with Linksys with interest.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/08/24/linksys.html
I believe that was written 08/24/01. I can not find any info on the linksys site with respect to ur article. Can u follow up on the topic. I think linksys wap11 driver is now 1.7+.
I am using an intranet + T1 internet with Cisco wireless bridge/ap equipment. With 200+ situations like ur find joe. Instead of 2 ap's I want everthing in one unit for around $185.
Can u help me.
Robert
I'll only help if you spell out words like "u" and "ur"!
Seriously, though, I don't exactly know what you want. What features do you need in a single unit that you have in a pair? The new firmware revisions for the WAP11 (not drivers - that's just on the Windows side) for the last several weeks have supported client acquisition by the WAP11.
That means that you can take one WAP11 plugged into a wired network and have it acquire a client-like connection to an access point elsewhere. This is a capability that I believe the Cisco gear has for several hundred dollars in a single unit if you use with other Cisco gear.
I haven't been able to test this out yet. You have to use homogenous equipment, like all Atmel firmware-based units. If you standardize on Linksys, it might work, but I don't make guarantees, and apparently Linksys tech support is claiming that Linksys doesn't support its bridging feature.
ok, your welcome.
I want my clients, whom insist on working deep in their caves to access our intranet from a common area entenna via a wireless bridge. Our present setup works fine for most clients.
Let me be clear, presently that common area entenna is cabled to a Bridge in AP mode. In the new config we use the bridge as a bridge. This new config will require all clients to upgrade to this bridge/AP combo. If we can reduce the price some.
One unit instead of two works for us.
I donot care if linksys doesnot support this use. I am only interested in any 802.11b solution
I still don't quite know what you want to do. You have remote wired networks and you want to run a single bridge device at those networks that connects as a fake client to a central AP or set of APs? I wouldn't rely on WAP11s for this, but rather continue using enterprise-quality equipment. The WAP11s are fine, but they're finicky at times, and I wouldn't want to handle 100 of them.
Hi Glenn
I want a device that is both a bridge and ap. Linksys solution is 2 ap's one with a 1.45 software upgrade connected through their ethernet ports.
My device will look like an ap but its ethernet port is connected to a antenna. The circuitry and antenna acts like a bridge. I have 3500 units looking for a solution. 7000 devices from Linksys is to cumbersome.
You definitely will want to go with a more expensive, but enterprise quality solution than the Linksys units. Something with SNMP for service quality, remote management tools, etc., etc.
Hi Glenn
The idea is to keep the cost down. Sure Cisco has a $3500 solution, well! Do you have any ideas. Maybe an ap repeater of some kind. Is your jock friend still using the Linksys solution? I just bought a wap11 to experiment with our Cisco wireless lan and some new SMC ap's that came last week. I will let you known how it goes.
Hi Glenn
I recently bought 2 wap11s. Setting one to bridge and the other to ap thru their ethernet port. I am having no luck getting the wap11 bridge to talk to my Cisco Bridge. Was there a precise roadmap used to get them to swap spit.
robert
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