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Create a dual-Airport 51 Mbit wireless network bridge
Authored by: smkolins on Jul 31, '03 11:57:32AM

Yeah But...

The bridge is extreme, ie 51mbps, but the 802.11b clients are connecting to the airport system at 11mbps. So the airports talk to eachother at 51 but the client only connects to the airport at 11.

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nah, read it again
Authored by: Accura on Jul 31, '03 12:10:43PM

"I recently ran into the problem of linking two existing ethernet networks in my company. "

he/she wanted to link 2 ethernet networks with out running more ethernet cable (I would think ethernet cable is actually cheeper than this) so all the airport extreme base stations do is bridge the ethernet over a wireless link at 51mb. it would also allow clients with 11b card to connect at 11mb and clients with the 11g card at 51 meg but any one already wired into the ethernet network has access to the other floor's ethernet network because the bridge is in place...

i still think running cable is cheeper....

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nah, read it again
Authored by: saint.duo on Jul 31, '03 12:12:38PM

However, wiring the network to that second floor seemed to be just unmanageable.

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nah, read it again
Authored by: notmatt on Jul 31, '03 08:33:30PM

Depends on the building, really. And if the poster is in Ireland, which seems likely, he could be in a fairly old building, making it particularly difficult.

For example, the building directly across the street from me (on the corner of Lawnmarket and West Bow in Edinburgh) is spraying water out from just between the first and second floors (second and third, if you're N. American).

I've yet to figure out the purpose of the fairly regular discharge (complete with a purposeful-looking pipe sticking out of the wall), but I have a hunch that wiring this building for ethernet would be fairly hard, if they can't even get drains in.



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nah, read it again
Authored by: imageworx on Aug 01, '03 10:28:17AM

There's not a floor that can't be cored to. Likely, it may cost more in labour for this work, than purchase several AirPort Extreme bases.
But there are WireLess Bridges out there already (Orinco, Linksys, SMC... both for a, b and g).

I've always wondered about wireless repeaters...you could extend the nodes indefinitely..within reason and power access.. :)

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remote clients are wired
Authored by: extra88 on Jul 31, '03 03:03:34PM
"Click on save and let the second Airport boot again. Now you can plug this one to a router on your SECOND network too."

The clients at the second location are not using Airport cards, they're connected by wire to a "router" (probably a switch, not a router). The router is connected to the Airport Extreme Base Station which bridges that network to the first network. Bridging is a nice feature not always found in consumer-oriented access points, such as the Netgear MR814.

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