[Gllug] Hassle free way to connect ethernet-enabled device to a wireless LAN

Adrian McMenamin adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info
Sat Jan 20 15:24:58 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 15:19 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> I've got a computer and a printer and various other bits which have
> ethernet sockets but no wireless, and no way to wireless enable them
> either.  I want to connect them to my wifi LAN (running cables around
> the house is not an option).
> 
> I think what I need here is a "wireless ethernet bridge".
> Unfortunately these devices seem to be rare as hens teeth at the
> moment.  I would prefer to avoid the triumvirate of shoddy wireless
> kit (ie. Linksys, D-Link and Belkin), but it looks like they are the
> only ones selling such devices, and even those are rare.

Aren't commodity wireless routers wireless ethernet bridges?

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