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lilshawn:
i'm having some issues setting up a wireless bridge. I keep googling and I keep getting conflicting information. I don't know if i'm using the term properly or people just don't know what the hell it is.

I have a pre-existing wireless network that i would like to connect a wired only electronics to. I have no wired access to the area.

I have a Belkin "F5D7230-4" router that supports both "wireless bridging" and "wireless access point" amongst other things.

the existing network is (at the core) an Actiontec V1000H http://www.actiontec.com/products/product.php?pid=191 dsl and router in one unit.

I did find this http://en-us-support.belkin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/37 that shows how to set up the bridging, but it seems like it's missing a bunch of information or a step or something. there's no explanation of how I need to set up the existing network or what. seems to me the instructions are telling you to open up the router and point the bridge to it's own MAC address  :dizzy:

the other information iv'e googled up about wireless bridging appears to be idiots just extending the wireless network by patching another wireless access point into a LAN port on the existing network which isn't bridging at all.

i'm still searching to see if there is some kind of dd-wrt or something that i can flash to this belkin router to make things easier.

any ideas or insight?

Samstag:
Use the wireless mac address of your actiontec router when setting up the belkin, or just select the option to enable bridging without a specific mac address.

lilshawn:
but since i have no way to put in security information for the existing wireless network into the belkin, am i going to have to change the existing wireless to an open network, then allow access through the MAC addresses of the wireless things that need connecting??

Samstag:
If the belkin doesn't have any settings for connecting to a 3rd party secure network then it's not going to be able to do the job.  It sounds like the bridging is a proprietary thing that may only work with other belkins.

Can you put tomato firmware on it?  I'm pretty sure that would give you real bridging..

lilshawn:
yeah i'm thinking it's some proprietary bridging.

i'm currently searching for an open source firmware i can load on it. Apparently dd-wrt is out not sure why... some older versions of this router can load it but not this revision. they probably shrunk the memory size.

still lookin tho

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