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On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Should I need only one wireless card in my router to connect to both |
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> the clients and a wireless bridge which is connected to the WAN? |
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I think you need 2 cards in your router (one as host and one as client |
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to the wireless WAN bridge), unless you use WDS. |
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WDS allows your access points to become repeaters while still |
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functioning as access points, so you can have multiple APs and only |
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one of them needs to be connected to the wired network (as long as |
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each AP is within range of at least one other AP). |
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The cost of WDS this is that your available bandwidth is basically |
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halved (and if you have to support 802.11b, it gets even slower). |
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Depending on your expected usage, that might or might not be a big |
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deal. |
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