Network Bridge

[InsightGoalie]

Originally Posted by superslug

You can set up a single network using two routers so there is no need for any sort of bridge. Basically you can use one router as your dhcp server (assigning ip's to devices on the network) and the then can be used basically like a switch or access point. The only problem is I think you would have to have a wired connect between the 2 routers.

1.Leave the router that has direct internet access as the dhcp server (should be default) and turn it off on the other one. You should be able to do this from the routers configuration page

2. Make sure the 2nd routers ip is on the same network as the first. An IP address is has 2 parts: a network address and a computer address. eg. For the address 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1 identifies the network and the .1 at the end identifies the computer. Set your 2nd router to have the same network address as your internet router but a different computer address eg. If your internet routers address is 192.168.1.1 set your 2nd router to 192.168.1.2.

3. As I said i think you would need to connect the 2nd router to the first via cat5 or cat6 cable. I haven't ever tried it with 2 wireless routers though so it might be possible

You're on the right track here. I don't have 2 PC's I'm trying to bridge, I have to routers I'm trying to bridge, in order to bridge you use a PC as the bridge...

Anyway, I'll try this out and see how this goes.

And no I'm not trying to just hook up the 360. Upstairs there are 2 PC's, 360, and a XBox that I all want to connect to the network... Getting wireless adapters for all would be not worth it $$$.

[InsightGoalie]

Haha, I accomplished what I wanted! Here's how I did it...

router A is connected to internet
router B is not and is in remote location

PC has wireless access to router A
PC has wired access to router B

PC's connection to router A's ICS (internet connection sharing) is turned on
configure router B to disable DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, basically it configures private and public IP addresses)

Result: Through PC router A's internet is shared to anything connected to router B. Finally... Superslug thanks for the help. Although that didn't exactly work you pointed me in the right direction!

[superslug]

Nice, if you can work out a way to get router b to see router a though you can have internet for all the devices on router b without having the pc on. Not that that if too inconvenient if your 360 and pc are together.

[Gnu]

Originally Posted by InsightGoalie

Haha, I accomplished what I wanted! Here's how I did it...

router A is connected to internet
router B is not and is in remote location

PC has wireless access to router A
PC has wired access to router B

PC's connection to router A's ICS (internet connection sharing) is turned on
configure router B to disable DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, basically it configures private and public IP addresses)

Result: Through PC router A's internet is shared to anything connected to router B. Finally... Superslug thanks for the help. Although that didn't exactly work you pointed me in the right direction!

If you feel like doing something super geeky, you can see if you can use a 3rd party firmware like dd-wrt, which will let you use your wireless router as a bridge, no PC required.

[Gnu]

Originally Posted by chedabob

Connection bridging on Wi-Fi is the most unreliable thing in the world. Buy yourself a 30ft CAt5 cable and use that until you can afford the Wi-Fi adaptor or a pair of Ethernet over Powerline adaptors.

Besides the fact that your opinion of wifi is abundantly clear, wifi bridging, once it is set up, is no more reliable than any other wi-fi adapter. There's no major functional difference whatsoever.

[InsightGoalie]

Not really worth it to me to try and get 3rd party stuff. It would be nice but, honestly my PC is on almost 24/7 anyway. I did try to get router B to run directly through router A but, that just wouldn't work... I'm pretty sure I would need 3rd party stuff for it.