[CoLoCo] extending wireless access

Jim Hutchinson jim at ubuntu-rocks.org
Sun Feb 3 16:45:54 GMT 2008


On Feb 2, 2008 11:49 PM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> My advice:
> Buy a cheap used wireless router off ebay and just throw it on a different
> IP range (i.e. switch it to 192.168.2.*) and keep it on the same subnet.
> It's basically like setting up a Wireless AP on a network that already has a
> router.  Works great and it's cheaper than most network extenders or APs.
>

Won't that require a wired connection back to the first router or a
modem? That's what the extender tries to solve. It's all wireless.
However, with a cheap router you can do the WDS stuff.

-jim

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