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wirless ether net bridge netgear products. How?
Not sure if I am posting in the right forum, as I am not sure if some netgear access point products also allow wireless ethernet bridge. However, I hope someone can help with my questions below about ...
ulmo wrote: I believe my router supports bridging. However from what I have read on here it sounds like an access point might not work as means of creating a bridge between a piece of equipment with a lan socket (blue ray or pc that doesn't have built in wireless) and an existing wireless network.
By definition a wireless bridge does not link a wired device to an existing wireless network - it links two wired network segments to form a single network wirelessly - a bluray player wired to an access point would be considered as one wired network segment - you need TWO access points to create the wireless bridge - or - a wireless access point AND a router that supports wireless bridging.