[OZAPRS] Help setting us wireless LAN

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Mon Apr 25 21:49:41 EST 2005


Andrew,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:52:17PM +1000, Andrew Rich wrote:
> So how does the wireless part of the network get thru to the DSL
> DNS,GATE etc ?
>  
> Or does bridging connections take car of that for you ?

You only have 1 IP address from your ADSL provider. You need something
to perform network address translation between the two. Typically this
is done using a router.

If you really mean bridging, that won't be sufficient. You need routing
between the LAN (wireless or wired) and the WAN (ADSL), but bridging is
a layer 2 function, meaning that it copies whole Ethernet frames between
networks, not IP packets.

In Windows you can set up the Internet Connection Sharing to share the
ADSL connection with the wireless network. Windows performs the address
translation and other functions.

The easiest way might to be buy a wireless router. For example the
Linksys WRT54GS for about $160. You can plug it into your ADSL modem and
it provides the wireless (it acts as an access point for your two PCs).
Or you can buy devices with ADSL modem + wireless router etc all in one.
One such manufacturer is Billion (www.billion.com.au). I have used one
of their ADSL modem + wired routers and it worked very well.


Hamish
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