Which wireless device do I need?

Afternoon all, a straight forward question (I hope!)

Room A has a wireless router, which has a cat5 cable running out the back of it to room B. I have done this because the wireless signal from the router simply won't reach room B. What type of wireless device do I need to buy & attach to the end of the cat5 to make room B part of my existing wireless network?

Is it simply a WAP, or is something else required?

TIA, Ben

A wireless access point - it would appear as a second wireless network, but they would have access to computers on the other network for file sharing or accessing media services.

Thanks

Is having 2 wireless networks problematic in any way? I presume there's no obvious way to make room B part of the same wireless network, or you'd have suggested it-?

Finally, from router to WAP, should the cat5 cable be straight-through or crossover?

Thanks again, Ben

Hi, use a straight-through Cat5e Ethernet cable.

I have a 3Com 3CRWDR100A-72 router configured in Bridge Mode as an access point, it gives wireless and wired (3 additional RJ45 port) connections, also discovered it will even work as an access point configured with PPPOA, I did not think it was suppose to.

If both routers have the same IP Address the access point cannot be seen on the LAN (Local Area Network) it just vanishes, but still works, as a single network wireless and wired access point. Have different SSID broadcasts to identify the wireless connections.

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I'd not recommend having two devices on the same IP - can cause configuration confusion

The computers are on the same network, just using a different wireless signal to get to the network. This is why you buy a wireless access point, it just passes network traffic through it, a router would have created a completely new network.

In terms of wireless signals you would do best to ensure they are using different wireless channels.

On the cables normal straight through should be fine, modern kit will auto switch making cross over cables a thing of the past almost.

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I'd not recommend having two devices on the same IP - can cause configuration confusion

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I use Static IP Address for each connection made to the LAN (Local Area Network) with (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) DHCP disabled, I find it then very easy to configure and identify all connections made to the network.