Wireless extender AND bridge

[colincliff]

I have jsut moved into a new flat and i have found that my wireless network doesn't reach to my lounge where i want to use my latop over wifi and also connect an xbox media centre via a wireless bridge. Moving my wifi router is not a problem.

I was wondering if anybody knows of a product that both extends the range of my wifi and that also allows me to plug in an ethernet device (the xbox) and bridge it to the network.

I dont really want to have a two separate products in the lounge to achieve this.

I have looked at a number of products and all seem to do either one or the other.

thanks in advance!

[abeacock]

I have a 3Com OfficeConnect wireless/modem/router (http://andrewbeacock.blogspot.com/20...fantastic.html) and it has some admin screens that look like they allow repeating of pre-existing wireless networks - I was presented with a list of my neighbours networks and asked which one I wanted to repeat.

It also has a 4-port switch built in so I assume you can also connect wired devices to the repeated network.

Please consider this all rumour as I obviously haven't used these features or tried out what you want to do.

Maybe the manual would give you the answers you need?
http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/r...-72&order=desc

Let us know how you get on...

[herulach]

i sound like a broken record, but a see my thred in the bargains section re the linksys wrt54g.

[colincliff]

i sound like a broken record, but a see my thred in the bargains section re the linksys wrt54g.

From what i've read about the wrt54g you can't have it as a repeater and use it to plug an ethernet device onto the network at the same time.

[colincliff]

Apple Airport express seems to do the trick.... expensve though!