maharg said:
It's hardly that complicated. Just get a repeater and a wifi/ethernet bridge. You don't want or need a second access point.
I think the confusing part is some access points have repeater modes in it.
xsarien: I dunno, I took a networking class and all the concepts in there were all screwed up =) That was my most hated class and the sad thing is I really wanted to take it at the time. Even then, I still get confused with how some of the wireless stuff works. I can grasp switches, hubs, routers, etc, but when it comes to wireless then it becomes a big mess. Even worse is as I mentioned above how some pieces of hardware have extra features to simulate functions of other hardware, but then you have the issue of compatibility and since those features are special, which hardware can actually communicate with it properly.
Ok, I stand corrected on the wireless working =) I've had nothing but issues with wireless when I was fooling around with it. The fact that this is the first real time that I'm using it for myself by wirelessly linking my consoles to the network and it actually works so far has me amazed. I was going to wire it up just because I don't trust wireless at this point. When I said working, I meant like general networking concepts in general, the way packets are routed and so forth. God it's a big pain in the ass.