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Wireless Bridges for Networking

Info

  • Level: Beginner
  • Presenter: Eli the Computer Guy
  • Date Created: July 29, 2010
  • Length of Class: 12 Minutes

Tracks

Prerequisites

Purpose of Class

  • This class shows students how wireless access points can be used to connect networks.

Topics Covered

  • Why Wireless Bridges Are Used
  • Creating a Wireless Bridge

Class Notes

  1. Wireless bridges can be used to connect networks in separate buildings, or inside of buildings where network cable cannot be run.
  2. You cannot use 2 wireless routers to create a bridge.  One side HAS to be a dedicated Wireless Access Point
  3. In the Wireless Access Point set the access point to Bridge mode, and then enter the MAC address of the Wireless Router or Access Point it is connecting to.
  4. You can attach high powered antennas tot he access points ot make them work better.
  5. If you are going to use real time communication the bridge should be created with 802.11n equipment



Eli the Computer Guy (427 Posts)

Eli the Computer Guy has 16 years experience in technology being the guy to fix "it". From the Army, to building out new satellite offices for the enterprise, to running his own shop with 9 full time employees Eli has real world experience with almost all systems that technicians will be working with. Eli has 1600 hours of formal technical beyond his Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice on technologies ranging from Avaya PBX/ Audix to Microsoft, Red Hat Linux, MySQL, Cisco and much more.


  • Ian

    That was a very helpful video. Thank you for explaining that. It brought up some more questions for me though.
    Why does VoIP need to have a Wireless Bridge that runs Wireless N to work properly? Can you explain what Access point mode, AP client, Wireless repeating, Wireless bridging are? what are the differences between them? what are the similarities? can you explain in technical detail? are there any differences in how the signal is transmitted? do each of these affect frame/packet/segment transmission? which would be best for replacing an Ethernet cable? i just have a Vonage v-portal i want to be able to move out to the living room but this is proving difficult because of my equipment limitations. thank you for your time. any help from any source is appreciated.

  • Eli the Computer Guy

    A few too many questions. Basically for 802.11n it’s simply how the protocol was designed. A B and G were created before real time communication was important in wireless networking.

  • jagdish`

    That was a very helpful video.

  • irfan

    Hi Eli, Thanks alot for your support. That video was realy helps me. Now i have cenirio. i am using winxp sp3 i create there a vpn connection. now i want to connect from my home with win7. How sould i configure my vpn client on my home pc. Please help me out.
    Regards
    irfan

  • John kawishe

    I find you site very interesting and useful,i hope I’ll visiting it daily good day Eli

  • John kawishe

    very interesting site, surely its wonderful keep it up Eli

  • Bart

    awesome resource… thank you

  • Carlos Meza

    Excellent video presentation, actually covers beginners and medium level in wireless technology, hard to find a so well documented complete presentation. It is a Must see it. Thank You Eli.

  • Kerry

    This is very informative information you provided Eli! Eli, let say your campus maybe 800ft away from each other, is “wireless bridge” a stable solution still?

  • Jason law

    i have problem dealing with the access point i just brought to do what you mention in this video as the access point can’t connect itself to the router as after the configuration is still unable to bridge . please help me out with this puzzle. thanks really appreciate it .

  • reza

    Thanks so much I wish you show how to configure the bridge for home



















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