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[larryjoachim]

Hi all-

I hope you can help.  I own a dir 855 which does the job for me for the most part.  However, the entertainment area of my house is a bit far away from the router and while the signal is "good" it sometimes is not.

I picked up a dir 655 which I know was working and would like to use it near the entertainment center as a wired router---in other words, wireless between the 855 and the 655 and then wired to the various users on the 655 (I also have a couple of wired users on the 855 too). 

I believe this is called an access point/switch, but don't have a very good idea as to how to set it up and still maintain wireless security.

Can someone perhaps provide step by step instructions, or point me to a web site that can do the same?

Thanks-

Larry

[blenchi]

Hi,
What you need is a bridge.  The DIR-655 is a wireless router and can't be setup as a bridge. I found myself in the same kind of situation.  Couple desktops without a wireless interface at a place where I didn't had foreseen a wired contact.  Solved it with a DAP-1522, 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz access point/bridge.  The DAP-1522 had 4 1 Gigabit ports and is capable of bridging with the DIR-855 I use as main router.

[DJ2004]

You canīt connect the two routers wirelessly but what You could do is connecting them with a dlan solution (I did it in my house this way and it works very well).
Hope it helps...

Cheers