Wifi bridge help

[asand1]

My wife's boss is allowing a neighboring warehouse wifi access for his surveillance system which uses a cloud service. In order to allow his PC and DVR acces I have been tasked with making it work.

I was thinking a Linksys wifi router with bridge turned on to communicate with the bosses Linksys router, and a cat5 switch at the other end of the building where the equipment is located.

Will a router (bosses) running as a bridge still work as an access point? Is there such thing as a wifi to cat5 adapter that will allow the second LAN wifi connectivity?

Simple is better, and it seems like this guy has money to burn. I'm thinking maybe two new routers to make the bridge?

Please tell me anything you know and use small words.

 

[Andrew1972]

The thruput is pretty limited to about 5mpbs up/down typically. Will that work for surveillance?

 

[jaj]

I have a new ASUS AC87u (802.11ac/5gHz) wifi router that supports a wireless-link mode that should do what you want. It requires two of them, one for each end of the link, but it gives you a wireless link from one LAN segment to another. I believe you still need a router (not one of the two link devices) to act as the firewall/NAT/DHCP device.

The 5gHz band has massive bandwidth - I can put 150mbps downlink speed onto my wifi connected devices. The linking mode cuts that in half, but it's still lots.

 

[DrRoughneck]

It will work until somebody somewhere turns on a microwave oven.

 

[asand1]

This looks promising.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...W6277-_-Product

 

[Andrew1972]

Is there anyway of simply running a pair of ethernet wires(1 live and 1 backup) between buildings. The telecom wanted $50k years back to build something like this so we ran the lines thru and storm a drain as fix to improve LAN speed between buildings. We were able to make some good bonus that year as our department had budget left and PM was leaving

 

[Rand]

Originally Posted By: asand1
This looks promising.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...W6277-_-Product


anyone that cant write good enough english for a product description.. is unreliable.

what is long range 30ft? What is "better wireless"?
Quote:
Please pull the switch to the right location where the function you want before using.



You don't give enough physical details for anyone to contribute a good answer. Describe location and distances.. and building materials it will have to pass through.
As well as needed bandwidth and reliability.

 

[SwampSurvivor]

In a previous life ...

I worked outsourced tech for a company that had a lot of cheap customers.

One of the customers had a garage that was opposite theirs on a different block. They didn't want to have to get another connection, set up a VPN, etc.

We ended up buying some home routers ( they were too cheap for professional stuff ...) and put DD-WRT and directional antennas on it and did our best to get line of sight between the two buildings. Surprisingly enough, it worked quite well! The IP cameras and the computers in the garaged had no connectivity issues. They purchased another building and, I believe, that was going to be set up in a similar manner as well.

 

[97K15004WD]

Use a UniFi Device:

https://www.ubnt.com/products/#all/wireless

I've set these up and they are easy to use. Great forum for support also.

 

[redhat]

Originally Posted By: 97K15004WD
Use a UniFi Device:

https://www.ubnt.com/products/#all/wireless

I've set these up and they are easy to use. Great forum for support also.



Have these in all of our facilities, probably an installation of at least 200 or more.

They work great. I even use one at home. Awesome devices.

 

[asand1]

Steel buildings, probably 100'. Don't know the bandwidth at this point, but it's for backing up the a cloud server. The cameras are actually hardwired the the DVR with cat5.

 

[asand1]

Standing inside the front door of the second building we get good wifi on our phones from the first building.

 

[OVERKILL]

Without spending the money on a device with two separate antennas (one for client/bridge the other for local coverage) you might be best served just using two cheap AP's, one with a directional antenna in client mode to create your bridge, which is then connected to a switch that has the DVR and another AP connected to it for local coverage (if that's what you are aiming for).

 

[doitmyself]

I don't understand the OP's needs, but one of our units is using this system between buildings:

http://www.open-mesh.com/