Add wireless switch into a wired network

[anne]

I have a dlink modem, connected to a dlink 8 port router, on which 1 port is connnected to a 5 port switch 2 of which then goes out to various places.
All up there is a server 7 pc's, a laptop and an xbox360 connected with some vacant points in the house. It all works Perfectly.
What i want is another xbox360 in the furtherest part of the house.
I thought to say running more cable in the roof i would try and connect a wireless switch to the router.
Is this going to work? A wireless switch connected to a wired router?

[jstanek7]

Check out laserfloyd's post about wireless access pointin this forum. he has this web page that should help you.

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101496.asp

[Tuttle]

If you buy a wireless access point instead of a wireless router, you don't have to jump through any of the hoops on that page. It's just a matter of plugging it in, setting up the security (most of them these days come with a tool on CD to help with that, otherwise there's always the web page interface) and you're done.

If you like the D-Link stuff then that's the DWL-G700AP, but all the consumer networking manufacturers should have something suitable.

[gghartman]

personally this is what i do when working with wireless. first in my area charter cable is one company and from the install i have done with them they dont have wireless modems just dumb high speed modems.

i work a lot with centurytels dsl and the modems they send out are basically routers which can give out ips thru dhcp. i also use mostly linksys wireless routers.

so on the dsl modem i disable the dhcp and then set it to bridge then i connect the linksys wireless to the dsl modem and configure all ids and passwords thru the linksys and setup any security thru the linksys. it works and its easy. if i need to add more ports to the wireless i just get a 10/100 switch connect it to any port and boom its up and running.

[Super-Nova]

all you have to do is disable DHCP on the wireless router, change the ip to something different. For example if it is a linksys by default it is 192.168.1.1, so change it to 192.168.1.2. Then connect the lan port of the wireless router to one of the ports on your switch. I have one set up in the same manner.

[gghartman]

never done it that way on the wireless router side of things. guess i just prefer disabling dhcp on the router and have everything go thru the wireless side of things that way i can make changes easily to the wireless security side of things.