Hi Guys, twiddling my thumbs waiting for the dreambox to arrive I thought I would try to figure out how to connect it to the network. I did a little search here and there are not many threads on this and this could be useful to many folks.
My current setup has the adsl modem and wifi router and PC in my room. The cable connection is in the living room downstairs. All laptops in the house connect to the internet via this wifi router in my room wirelessly.There is no way I can pull a cat5 all the way to the living room to the dreambox so I was figuring out how to make a wireless connection and get dreambox on the network and internet.
1. I have a adsl plug point in the living room unused, I could use that but then I would have to move the adsl modem and router to the living room but since my main pc doesn't have wifi that would leave it without internet and necessitate buying a usb/pci wifi adaptor. Don't quite like this.
2. Connect dreambox to a separate wifi router and bridge the 2 wifi routers. Since I already have a spare wifi router so that could work. Unfortunately you would think this bridge would be easy but no. It doesn't work that way. You can't bridge 2 wifi routers just like that. You need to by a separate wifi router called a 'client ethernet bridge' to connect something like dreambox and get it on the main network, incidentally I have a buffalo G54 HP and Buffalo G54S. That's sucks. Apparently something like Buffalo WLI TX4 G54HP would work out of the box to connect the dreambox to as a client, and get this they are usually more expensive than wifi routers.
3. But no need to give up, you can load 'Tomato firmware' - third part firmware for some routers like Buffalo and Linksys - on one of the routers and apparently this will give you the option to convert it into a wireless/client ethernet bridge and connect the dreambox to it with the result that the dreambox will be on the home network and have access to internet. Cool. That's exactly what I need and even better unlike off the shelf 'client ethernet bridges' that usually have only one lan port, using tomato to convert a wifi router to wireless ethernet bridge has the advantage of giving you 4 physical lan ports in your living room that you can use to connect other things like game consoles like Xbox and HD-DVD players etc.
Is anyone here using a setup like this?
My current setup has the adsl modem and wifi router and PC in my room. The cable connection is in the living room downstairs. All laptops in the house connect to the internet via this wifi router in my room wirelessly.There is no way I can pull a cat5 all the way to the living room to the dreambox so I was figuring out how to make a wireless connection and get dreambox on the network and internet.
1. I have a adsl plug point in the living room unused, I could use that but then I would have to move the adsl modem and router to the living room but since my main pc doesn't have wifi that would leave it without internet and necessitate buying a usb/pci wifi adaptor. Don't quite like this.
2. Connect dreambox to a separate wifi router and bridge the 2 wifi routers. Since I already have a spare wifi router so that could work. Unfortunately you would think this bridge would be easy but no. It doesn't work that way. You can't bridge 2 wifi routers just like that. You need to by a separate wifi router called a 'client ethernet bridge' to connect something like dreambox and get it on the main network, incidentally I have a buffalo G54 HP and Buffalo G54S. That's sucks. Apparently something like Buffalo WLI TX4 G54HP would work out of the box to connect the dreambox to as a client, and get this they are usually more expensive than wifi routers.
3. But no need to give up, you can load 'Tomato firmware' - third part firmware for some routers like Buffalo and Linksys - on one of the routers and apparently this will give you the option to convert it into a wireless/client ethernet bridge and connect the dreambox to it with the result that the dreambox will be on the home network and have access to internet. Cool. That's exactly what I need and even better unlike off the shelf 'client ethernet bridges' that usually have only one lan port, using tomato to convert a wifi router to wireless ethernet bridge has the advantage of giving you 4 physical lan ports in your living room that you can use to connect other things like game consoles like Xbox and HD-DVD players etc.
Is anyone here using a setup like this?
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