Linksys Wireless G Router as Access Point
Danielle just bought a nice new iMac. This iMac comes with an airport extreme wirelesss card. In normal speak, that means it comes with an 802.11G wireless network card. However, my home network is only 802.11b. So, I decided to upgrade. Strange thing about wireless hardware, a straight access point–which is what I had before–is more expensive then a wireless router. And much, much harder to find (I phoned my local computer store about one only to be told they could get it for the middle of June). So the logical thing to do was to get a wireless router and use that as an access point.
On first look, this was easier said than done.
After a little investigation I found out that this is incredibly easy to do. You just have to make sure you don’t do one thing. Do not plug anything into the WLAN port! This effectively side-steps the router part and allows you to use the wireless part. There are a few more steps, you also have to turn off DHCP and give the router a static IP address and enable all the wireless parts. Most of the information I needed to get this up and running came from a quick Google search.
