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Extending netopia 3347nwg wireless network

  • 06-01-2007 1:41am
    #1
    atellyer
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭


    Hi, I have a netopia 3347nwg wireless network and am able to connect to the internet when I am close to the router. However my house has very thick walls and when I am at the other end of the house I cannot access it. I have a Belkin Wireless Range Extender that I used in a previous house. Is there a way to extend my wireless netopia 3347nwg network using this Belkin box?

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    stanley1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭stanley1


    have you thought of hard-wiring your network, cat 5 cable + nic would be rock solid.


  • #3
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    i agree. nothing like a cable.

    another option is...can the belkin be used purely as an access point, ie, run a cat 5 cable from your netopia and plug it into your belkin, then locate it in such a way that you get decent reception in most places in your house?

    i did this in my house. i have a wrt54g to handle my IBB breeze. i ran out of LAN ports, so i bought a 16-port switch in marx computers <€70>, uplinked into it from the linksys. then patched another wrt54g i have and located it in the hall. this works purely as an AP, turned the dhcp off etc. works a treat!


  • #4
    atellyer
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭atellyer


    thanks for the replies. I had thought of hard wiring it, but I was sure there was a way of doing it wirelessly. After doing a google I have read about the wireless bridge option. Any idea what this is?


  • #5
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    a wireless bridge is a device for making, the likes of an XBOX, wireless or perhaps if you had a laptop with ONLY a wired ethernet socket and no provision for a wireless card, such as no USB or PCMCIA sockets.

    A wireless bridge could be used for a group of PCs connected into a switch along with the bridge. The bridge then links back to the AP.


  • #6
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,168 ✭✭✭nilhg


    humaxf1 wrote:
    a wireless bridge is a device for making, the likes of an XBOX, wireless or perhaps if you had a laptop with ONLY a wired ethernet socket and no provision for a wireless card, such as no USB or PCMCIA sockets.

    A wireless bridge could be used for a group of PCs connected into a switch along with the bridge. The bridge then links back to the AP.

    What humaxf1 is describing is one of these.

    What the OP needs is this, I don't know how well the netopia supports it though.


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  • #7
    Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    Moved to Wireless.


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