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mrRobinson

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Use Router As Access Point?
« on: October 25, 2007, 05:36:00 PM »
what model is your dlink.  basically turn off nat and dhcp server if that is running on a router and you have an ap.
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Perplexer

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Use Router As Access Point?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2007, 04:17:00 PM »
It sounds like what you want is a wireless bridge or wireless game adapter, which is basically the opposite of an access point.

Access point takes a LAN connection and allows wireless clients to connect to it.
Wireless bridge lets you place a wired device on a wireless network.

Most consumer routers do not allow you to configure them as a wireless bridge.  The exceptions that I am familiar with are any router which is DD-WRT compatible, and also the Zyxel P-330W (which is dirt-cheap online or eBay).
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quall

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Use Router As Access Point?
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2007, 06:43:00 AM »
I think dlinks let you bridge with each other, but not other devices. If you look at in the back of their boxes, it will show what you can connect with, or at least what they will support.
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