Wireless Suggestions

I installed a Linksys WRT54GX2-SRX200 in the lower floor of a large home. I am trying to connect to a Laptop that has a WPC54GX(SRX) PCMCIA card in it. The laptop is located 2 floors above the Wireless Router and about 50 feet away. I get very little signal to the laptop and most often no signal. I do not have a way to wire all the way to the Router but I do have a cable I can use in the room that the laptop is in that runs down to the lower level and ends in the telco room which is about 50 feet away from the router with one wall in the way. This is a CAT5 cable. Is there a way I can hook the laptop to this cable via the ethernet port and in the telco room plug into some kind of wireless adaptor that will talk to the wireless router?

Other thoughts were to buy a Linksys Range Extender and place it between somewhere to boost the signal and also put those High Gain Antenas on the Wireless Router.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

I'm not 100% certain I'm following what you're trying to do, but I believe a wireless bridge might be what you're looking for. You can set the bridge up to connect to the wireless network, and then bridge the connection via ethernet cable to any device with a standard RJ-45 network jack.

Here's one by Linksys. I believe any Linksys access point set in bridge mode would do the same thing for you as well.

That is a possibility. Your description is correct. I want to go from the laptop ethernet port caoonect to the jack in the wall and at the other end of that cable (in the lower level) connect it to a device that will talk to the wireless router on the same floor.

I already ordered the hig gain antenas and the range extender (repeater) from Linksys. I will look for this as well and see which one works best.

Thanks

Seems to me the cheapest route and might be a easier to just go the extra 50 feet and put a hole in the wall from the telco room to the router and get a longer cable that does not exceed 300 feet or so.

But if a wireless bridge is what you want...

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...VisitorWrapper

For that amount of money you're losing bandwidth to boot.

BTW, a range extender extends the ranage of your router's wireless coverage, but it first has to be connected via wired to your router.

So you still have to go the extra 50 feet put a hole in that wall bewteen the telco room and the router. Connect via wire to the router on one end and the extender on the other end. The extender would be where the laptop is and that would effectively extend the wireless coverage of your router.

This is what I got:

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...VisitorWrapper

It is not just through the wall to the router. It would be about 50 feet away and the way the house is built, I can not snake those walls. And I can not have any exposed wires.

Are you saying that with this range expander, I will loose throughput?

The documentation on this states that setup must be in the same room as the router then it can be placed anywhere. No wires back to anything, just the electrical connection. Am I missing anything?

Thanks

Yeah, that's a range extender that you linked to, that requires it to be wired to the router as far as I know. You need the wireless bridge.

If you don't have a choice, than return your extender for the bridge and you're good to go. But read both user guides to be sure.

You don't lose throughput, just that wired networks are faster than wireless networks thus far.