Asus WL500G Deluxe Router

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:42 PM, James Kramer wrote:

> So, I gather that the OpenWrt in client mode does not act like the
> wireless setup on my note book where I just scan for local networks
> and hit the connect button and then add the user id and password?

Bridge = client.

As a bridge device the access point functions exactly like any other  
wireless node on the network.  You connect the bridge device to the  
primary access point and then connect wired Ethernet devices to the  
bridge.

You lose your local wireless network in the process.  A WiFi  
transceiver can function as an access point (hub) or a client (node),  
but it can't do both at the same time.  If you want to have both at  
the remote site then you need two transceivers at the remote site, one  
to bridge and one to be the access point.

Or set up WDS, which requires specific configurations on compatible  
hardware on both sides of the link, and as I noted previously you lose  
security.  You also lose performance: each WDS hop cuts throughput by  
50%.

--Rich P.