Posted: 8/24/2013 5:57:04 PM EDT
| I'm currently living in my RV post divorce and need some WiFi help. Right now I have DSL but I'm moving soon to a place with regular WiFi service. I have a desktop, two Bluray players and a laptop. What kind of router do I need to pick up the signal and route it where it needs to go? |
|
I have a couple of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Palm-Size-Portable-Wireless-802-11n-Network/dp/B004YNK9O6/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1377395984&sr=8-23&keywords=wifi+client+adapter They would consume the wifi and spit out ethernet. You could then connect that to any router you wanted. |
|
What brand/model is your modem? If your going to be moving into a house get a real router, preferably Wireless N if your DSL modem doesn't already have one.
While that palm sized one would be good for your trailer if you don't want to buy another one for wherever you are ending up, get a bigger one. |
|
Quoted:
Then the new modem will most likely have a router. if you want wireless on your desktop you need to install a wireless card into it. Sorry for being captain obvious. Yeah, I don't think you grasp the situation here. OP, you need what is called an ethernet bridge/router. You need to take the incoming WiFi signal and NAT it inside your RV so you can hook up the devices you need with Cat5 and also repeat the WiFi signal in the area of your RV. I would get one with external antenna hookups and a directional antenna (yagi or dish) to ensure the best incoming link quality. Any router that you can flash with DD-WRT will be able to provide this. |
|
Think your best bet would be a wireless repeater with a switch built in.
That way you'll have a device that connects to the park wide wifi that will repeat that wireless signal as well as a device you can hard wire PC's to. Otherwise you left with just connecting each of your devices to the park wide wifi individually. |
|
Quoted:
Doesn't sound like he would know how to configure that as a bridge though. Quoted:
Quoted:
I like WRT-54GL and have a few of them setup in a mesh network. Doesn't sound like he would know how to configure that as a bridge though. As I don't know him from Adam, I would agree with you. However, OP could educate himself easily by watching YouTube. This hardware combo is WELL documented there. 
|
|
I think any of the linksys wifi access points (NOT the routers) can function as a bridge. Add a wifi router behind that and you are GTG. May be easier ways.
ETA: Just looked. Linksys sells a bunch of different devices (WET54G, WET610N, WES610, etc) that give you exactly what you want. Take the park's wireless, give you an ethernet connection. You configure the box with the wifi credentials and it gives you wired ethernet. Only rub may be that you want to redistribute that to other wireless devices (your laptop), so you need to plug the ethernet out into a wireless router for the NAT function. If the park's wireless is using the 192.168.1.x IP range, you'll need to do some additional config on your router to get it to forward traffic properly. The NetGear routers that I have used before are NOT capable of this - they won't forward traffic bound for a private IP range from behind the gateway. Here's another alternative - buy Connectify for your laptop (available for download and online purchase). It will do exactly what you want using the laptop as the bridge. Works great if that is your only wifi device. Now that I think of it, even Windows Internet Connection Sharing would do that using the laptop. |
|
Check out CradlePoint MBR-95 (amazon)
It supports WIFI as WAN (the router connects to another wifi router) This will keeps your local wifi/lan network private You can also plug in a cellular USB modem for access any place Also supports regular dsl/cable You can setup fall over for each one... IE DSL goes down it will attempt to connect to WFI AP then cell modem and connect back to DSL when its back up. Easy to setup |
|
Then again, if you just want a quick solution for $60.00 and not have to do much to get what you want there is always this.
Wifi Range Extender |