Access Point or Router

[nationavon]

I have a building with three floors. I plan on installing a wireless Dlink router on the first floor. On the second and third floors I had planned on installing access points and connect them back to my wireless router using cat 5 cable. Access points are so much more expensive than wireless routers which makes no sense. Is there anyway I can use wireless routers in place of access points? Any comments would be appreciated.

Nathan

 

[ronnyjljr]

Definitely, the second router would pick up the signal from the first and rebroadcast. All you have to do is configure the second router like another host computer. Setting the ip address and whatnot.

-Ron

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[bcastner]

If you disable DHCP on a router, and connect using one of its regular LAN ports, you have created an Access point. Go from a regular LAN port of the first floor router to the uplink port on the router/AP on floor one. Use the Uplink port on the first floor router to go to a regular LAN port on the third floor router/AP.