bridge from free hot spot

Greg-SimoGreg-Simo Columbus,In
edited December 2006 in Science & Tech
The city has free hot spots and I would like to hook up a bridge so I may conect a router. The signal is not a problem. Any ideas? Thanks Greg

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  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited December 2006
    Not sure about your city, but most I've seen give you a wireless thingy (a.k.a. external wireless adapter) as part of the deal. It's got an antenna on one end, and an RJ45 jack on the other. Plug one end of a CAT5 into the RJ45 and the other end into the WAN port of a router and you should be good.

    Does that not work in your town?
  • Greg-SimoGreg-Simo Columbus,In
    edited December 2006
    no, Its a hot spot that you can use a lap top with a wireless card. I want to use a router so I can plug my Skype and more than one computer into..Greg
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited December 2006
    Greg Simo wrote:
    no, Its a hot spot that you can use a lap top with a wireless card.

    Still not sure what it is. Is it like the Verizon EVDO thing where you buy a special PCMCIA card? Kyocera makes a router for those if that's what you mean. Check it out here. This turns an EVDO signal into an 802.11 wireless signal.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Sounds to me like it's just a normal local wifi signal.. probably just 802.11b.

    What kind of router do you have Greg? IIRC there is a firmware update (3rd party) that allows the Linksys WRT54G routers to bridge connections like you're wanting. Basically instead of plugging in your DSL/Cable modem to the router for the WAN connection, it makes a Wireless Bridged connection to another access point... and you plug in your Skype phone, computers, etc into the router.

    I'll have to find that info for you in case you're willing to buy a new router.
  • Greg-SimoGreg-Simo Columbus,In
    edited December 2006
    Thats what I need. I have a host of wireless items from a d-link dwl-2000 to a wet 11. The d-link said it would work in bridge mode, but after I got it home, it will only bridge with another 2000. Its no problem to buy a new one if you think it will work. Thanks Greg
  • miragemirage
    edited December 2006
    Greg Simo wrote:
    The city has free hot spots and I would like to hook up a bridge so I may conect a router. The signal is not a problem. Any ideas? Thanks Greg

    I am not sure if there is a wifi bridge that can connect the wifi hotspot to your router. But I am sure you can use a software router on one of your computers. You will need a PC to act like a router that has both a wifi card and an ethernet card. You will need to create a bridge between wifi and ethernet interfaces to share the wifi connection over the ethernet interface. Then, you can simply connect a wifi router to the ethernet interface of the PC and configure the wifi router as if it is connected to a DHCP server.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    I kinda feel it may be simpler than that... I wish I had some money becuase I would love to test this out. But a wireless to Ethernet bridge device plugged into the internet port on the router should automatically connect to the wifi which then of course gives the router a WAN connection... IIRC.

    Though the bridge may have to be configured first to connect to the wifi then plug it into the router.
  • Greg-SimoGreg-Simo Columbus,In
    edited December 2006
    Thats the way I thought it would work, Has any one used a wet11 as the bridge? Greg..
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