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On Monday 22 September 2008 09:16:01 am Rodney Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:09:29 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> > > Umm, if this is a desktop you could run an AP in client mode and the
> > > computer will not even know it's wireless, solved my problem before it
> > > started. Mike
> >
> > - elaborate, please :-)
>
> That is actually a good suggestion if you happen to have a spare wireless
> router/AP. By plugging the desktop machine's ethernet port into a wireless
> AP, then running that AP in client mode so that it connects to the main
> wireless AP, the desktop machine simply thinks it is talking to a wired
> connection.
>
> The RF side effectively becomes a wireless ethernet bridge to the main
> wireless router. No wireless NIC drivers, no messing around on the client
> machine with authentication etc; let the wireless AP client take care of
> all of that.
>
> Wish I'd thought of it myself...:-)

Yup, sometimes the simlpest things just boggle the mind after you do it.

When I first got the AP (with a usb dongle) I used it with a win machine to 
get it online until I got a chance to pull a cable, then it sat and I started 
reading the docs to see what I could actually do with it as an experiment.

The Buffalo was just such a deal ($25 after rebate) that I had to buy it, 
after I set it up I ended up stacking 2 computers on it and doing Remote 
Desktop to the WinXP machine thru the switch, one cable vs 2 or 4 with a kvm.

Sometimes you have everything you need to get the job done, you just don't 
know it. I learned that from being a Ham..

Mike
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