Wifi Bridge?
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wackydo

Original Poster:

137 posts

280 months

Monday 1st February 2010
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Hi

I have a decent-ish network setup at home, using an Untangle linux router to give me an internal network with its own internal address range (ie NAT).

Now that I have a decent range of IP addresses to use, I want to add a few wifi cameras to the network.

I am trying to decide what sort of wifi appliance I need to buy in order to add these.

I want to be able to address the web cameras by IP addresses, so I want to be able to allocate the wifi device a range of IP address it can allocate to wireless devices.

Is the wifi device I want to buy called a "wifi bridge"??

Can anyone reccommend something for me please?

thanks
Tony

dtmpower

3,972 posts

265 months

Monday 1st February 2010
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It might be easier if you draw a layout of all your computers, network devices and other devices such as nas , cameras etc. I don't see why you would want to run different subnets at home.

A wifi bridge is normally considered a wireless link (2 devices both tx/rx) to extend a LAN from one place to another

wackydo

Original Poster:

137 posts

280 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2010
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OK, I've explained it badly.

All I want is to add wifi to an existing wired network. But most wifi units you see for sale for use in the home are adsl routers with added wifi.

mattley

3,027 posts

242 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2010
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What you want is a Wireless access point.

http://www.netgear.co.uk/wireless_access_points_WG...

Why this page says you need windows I don't know, it's just set up through a browser :? but this sort of thing.

wackydo

Original Poster:

137 posts

280 months

Tuesday 2nd February 2010
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Ok, that's just what I need, thanks for your help.