If your looking at a ruckus already why did you just pass up the WRT54.
These will do client mode bridging using DD-WRT or OpenWRT depending on
model of "router/bridge". I know you can pick one of these up new at
about 40 bucks and they work perfectly.

Heck if you could still use the existing switch. From what I have seen is
the Metroflex is about $100 a wrt is < $40 depending on where you look.


On 4/6/2009, "Justin Krejci" <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote:

>Ruckus Metroflex units support bridging, routing and routing+nat.
>
>They are relatively cheap and have a typical web interface as well as a
>telnet/ssh cli
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>Examples:
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>http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=ruckus+wireless
><http://shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=ruckus+wireless&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m27
>0.l1313&_odkw=ruckus&_osacat=0>
>&_sacat=0&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=ruckus&_osacat=0
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>These are the typical routers used in the City of Minneapolis wifi network.
>
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>From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org
>[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Andy Schmid
>Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:36 PM
>To: Adam Monsen
>Cc: Twin Cities Linux Users
>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] wirelessly bridging a small wired network
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>
>I believe you have 100 meters (~328 feet) to work with when it comes to
>ethernet cable, anything beyond that length and you'll need some sort of a
>repeater.  That should be plenty to figure out some way to run a cable.  I
>once lived in a house where we fished from each room ethernet cabling
>through the air vents, and centralized the router in the basement by the
>furnace.  Be creative :)
>
>I've done the whole wireless bridging before, and let me tell you its more
>trouble than its worth.  The connection reliability is sub-par and no where
>near the speed of gigE.  I recommend a wired connection.
>
>
>
>On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Adam Monsen <haircut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I have a room in my apartment (let's call it the "office") that is about
>100' away from my cable modem. I have an 802.11g wireless router
>connected to the cable modem.
>
>The office has three desktop computers wired to each other via a switch
>(for sharing a printer), but they can't get to the internet. I could get
>a very large length of CAT 5 or 6 cable, but that seems like a long way
>to stretch ethernet cabling, and a potentially ugly addition to my
>apartment (I can't drill and snake it through the walls).
>
>So, I'm thinking wireless. I *could* just get one wireless adapter for
>each computer, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a networking device
>that would basically talk 802.11g to the existing wireless router and
>share internet with the three computers in the office (via the existing
>office switch). I think this would basically be a wireless-to-wired
>bridge.
>
>Maybe something like this D-Link DGL-3420:
>http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=383
>Hard to be sure if it would work for my purposes.
>
>I know I can get a wrt54g or a dedicated computer to act as a bridge,
>but I was looking for a more plug-and-play adapter with WPA support and
>a little Web UI for configuring stuff like the wireless password.
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