I'm looking to add wireless to an existing wired network, but not quite sure how to. The terminology in this post will be a touch eccentric, as I don't really know what I'm doing yet.
I have a dhcp router with a spare ethernet port. Instead of connecting this to a switch, to which I connect a couple of laptops to with wires, I'd like to connect it to a "black box", to which a couple of laptops connect wirelessly. Aside from a probable decrease in bandwidth, I'd like it to behave identically to the simpler wired layout.
I'll worry about securing the wireless network after I've found out what I need to do to achieve this. I imagine it's possible to limit connections via the dhcp server in the router even if encryption is unavailable.
I'm fairly sure I can take a generic wireless router, tell it to behave as a switch, run a cable to it's wan port then leave the lan ports empty to achieve this result. This feels excessive though, as such a device is far more complicated than I'd need it to be.
Please name my desired "black box" to make Google a little less difficult for me
I have a dhcp router with a spare ethernet port. Instead of connecting this to a switch, to which I connect a couple of laptops to with wires, I'd like to connect it to a "black box", to which a couple of laptops connect wirelessly. Aside from a probable decrease in bandwidth, I'd like it to behave identically to the simpler wired layout.
I'll worry about securing the wireless network after I've found out what I need to do to achieve this. I imagine it's possible to limit connections via the dhcp server in the router even if encryption is unavailable.
I'm fairly sure I can take a generic wireless router, tell it to behave as a switch, run a cable to it's wan port then leave the lan ports empty to achieve this result. This feels excessive though, as such a device is far more complicated than I'd need it to be.
Please name my desired "black box" to make Google a little less difficult for me