Is it possible to link two wireless internet routers together wirelessly to share a single internet connection?

Question

I have my house connected to the internet by high speed 5GHz wireless point to point link. Within the house is both a wired and wireless network. The wireless network is served by a linksys internet WRT54GC.

I now have an office that is not connected to the main house but will have it's own network. The wireless network in the house has a reasonable signal in the office. I have another WRT54GC and I'm wondering if it's possible to connect them together such that I can plug the IP desk phone into it and my desktop computer (which doesn't have a wireless network card) and yet be able to see the internet and house computer?

This is what it will look like:

Ubiquity Bullet ---- (WAN) WRT54GC (LAN) ----- House Computer
                             | 
                             +---------------- WRT54GC (Office LAN)
                               (Wireless)

i.e. something like this:

Is this supported by the WRT54GC firmware?

Answer 1

yes, you want to use "repeater" mode.

if your router does not support Repeater mode then take a look at DDWRT - which is free open source firmware.

you only need this on the one router.

so your first WRT54GC with WAN would be regular wireless/router.

your second WRT54GC would be a Repeater (don't even need a cable)

hope this helps.

EDIT: link. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Universal_Wireless_Repeater

Luc