TP-Link CPE210 2.4 GHz 300 Mbps 9 dBi Outdoor CPE. Wireless Data Rates: Up to 300Mbps Frequency Band: 2.4 GHz - 2.483 GHz Interface: 1 x 10/100 Mbps Shielded Ethernet Port (Passive PoE in) 1 x Grounding Terminal 1 x Reset Button PoE Adapter: 1 x AC Jack with Ground 1 x 10/100/1000Mbps Shielded Ethernet Port (Power + Data) Standards: IEEE 802.11b/g/n (with Pharos MAXtream disabled). Mar 17, 2016 For example, on an Xbox 360 without a wireless adapter, an Xbox One that no longer connects to Wi-Fi, or when a computer is far away from the router, you can use Network Bridge to share your.
Take Linksys’s $129 WET11 Wireless Ethernet Bridge. With it, you can attach any Ethernet-capable device to your AirPort network. The WET11’s documentation doesn’t mention the Mac, but with a little. On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Sharing, then select Internet Sharing. Click the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu, then choose the internet connection you want to share. For example, if you’re connected to the internet over Ethernet, choose Ethernet. Feb 07, 2020 Wi-Fi Bridge Mode. In Wi-Fi networking, bridge mode allows two or more wireless access points to communicate and join their respective local networks. These APs, by default, connect to an Ethernet LAN. Point-to-multipoint AP models support wireless clients while operating in bridge mode, but others can function only point-to-point and disallow.
This is a quick post about setting up a simple layer 2 network bridge using a Mac (in this case a 2011 Mac Mini) running OS X (Mavricks). My goal was to setup the Mac, henceforth referred to as the mini, as an access point for my main network. I found no resources on line that covered doing this so I decided to write it up for those are interested.What we’re not doing
I found many posts online that covered setting up “Internet Sharing” with a Mac. Some of those referred to this as ‘bridging’ which it is not. At least, in it’s simplest form it is little more than Network Address Translation (NAT) with packets being forwarded from one interface to another. The problem with that approach is that only IP Traffic is passed and even that is adulterated such that clients on one side (the inside) of the link are not directly addressable by hosts on the other side (the outside) of the link.It’s great for letting multiple machines browse the web but not good for having multiple machines talk to each other whether they’re plugged in at the switch or connecting over Wifi and pulling from a common DHCP pool of addresses.
Configure Primary Interface
Primary is conceptual here. I’m taking about the interface that I’ll use to configure the host from over the network. The IP address for this interface will be the (main) address for this host. For me the primary interface is the ethernet port on the back of the Mini. Yours could be any of USB, BlueTooth, USB, FireWire, etc.We want to make sure that the interface is properly setup on the network. For you that may mean DHCP configuration, manually IP-ing it, or something else. I’m not going to spend time telling you how to do this. You’ll know it’s working when you can ping something external to the box (preferably external to the network).
In my case I set a static lease in my DHCP server so that every time the mac address for the Mini shows up it gets the same IP. The interface happens to be en0.
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Reboot and make sure it works on start up.
Turn on Internet Sharing
Yes, I know what I said before. We’re using this to make sure that we can actually connect to the WIFI access point and get packets out on the network.
Go to System Preferences -> Sharing
On the left-hand side under Service click onInternet Sharing but make sure you do not click the ‘on’ checkbox next to it.
Share your connection from: should be set to Ethernet (at least for me).
To computers using: should have (only) Wi-Fi selected (the checkbox to the left).
Click on Wi-Fi Options and setup the SSID, password, and channel you plan to use in the end. You can use test values if you want, just remember to set them appropriately before you’re done with the final step.
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When you’re sure everything is setup as you desire, click the checkbox next to Internet Sharing to enable it and click OK or Start if prompted by a subsequent dialog box to (re)start Internet Sharing.
Now configure a wireless client to connect to your Mac’s wireless network. Try to ping something to make sure it works.
Reboot and make sure it works on startup.
Bridge the interfaces
Internet Sharing is going to interfere with binding the two interfaces together into a bridge. So the first thing we have to do is open a terminal window and type:
sudo launchctl unload -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
That disables Internet Sharing. The actual command to create the bridge is remarkably simple. At the command line type in:
sudo ifconfig bridge create
The output of this command depends on what other bridge devices may exist already. If you get something like bridgeX where X is a number then that is your new bridge device and you now only have to add interfaces to it:
sudo ifconfig bridge0 addm en0 addm en1 up
For me en0 is my ethernet port, en1 is the Wi-Fi device, and bridge0 is the name of the device returned by the previous command. Your device names/numbers may be different. Use ifconfig to help figure it out.
Once you’re done with the above you need to re-enable Internet Sharing:
sudo launchctl load -w
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.InternetSharing.plist
Making it last
You’ll want to run the command line steps every time the system starts. I do this with a cronjob for the root user. I store it in ~root/bin/ (/var/root/bin) and invoke it with the line:
@reboot /var/root/bin/bridge.sh
The script contains:
@reboot /var/root/bin/bridge.sh
The script contains:
Reboot and make sure it all works on start up
Happy hacking...
Everybody is not using a router in their home to connect internet. Nowadays, when the Wifi adapter is almost in every laptop and PC (via Wireless adapter card); the users mostly ad hoc smartphone’s hotspot to share and use the internet. Another reason why the users started using Wifi over the ethernet connection; because nobody wants to run long ethernet cables in their homes. That’s why Wifi adapters and WiFi hotspots are more popular nowadays. So, in such circumstances, if someone wants to share a computer’s WiFi Internet connection with other Ethernet devices, how will he do that?
You might be thinking, why would we do this? Just imagine you don’t have a router with LAN ethernet port to connect some old devices. Since there are certain devices in home and offices those still not offers the WiFi connectivity option like smart TVs (old), media players, NAS devices and more… Such kind of devices needs a wired Ethernet connection to connect to the Internet.
So, if you think without a router, how do you share the internet from laptop or PC then here is the answer…
We don’t need any Virtual router to share internet connection in Windows 7, 8 or 10. Just bridge Wifi to ethernet in Windows 10 or whatever the Windows version you are on and that’s it. Not only Wifi adapter to Ethernet but also one can use this method for Ethernet adapter to Ethernet adapter too.
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How to share internet using wifi adapter to Ethernet cable
Although there are a few software available online those let us create virtual router on Windows to share internet from PC to PC via ethernet. But actually, we don’t need them. Just follow the below steps… We are using Windows 10 here but the steps are the same for Windows 8 and Windows 7 too.
- Connect the ethernet cable of other device to your computer or laptop.
- Go to the search bar of the Windows 10 or 7.
- Search for Control Panel.
- Click on the Control Panel to open it.
- Select the Network and Internet option.
- You will see View network status and task under Network and Sharing center, click on that.
- From the left side panel, click on Change adapter settings.
- Now press the Shift button and without releasing it, click on the Wifi adapter and then on the Ethernet adapter for which you want to share the network connection.
- Right click on any of the adapters and select the Bridge connection option.
Above tutorial steps in detail:
Step 1: As I said in the above-mentioned steps that first you need to connect the ethernet cable to the computer or laptop from where your want share the wireless network internet connection. Then, search and open the control panel on Windows 10 or Windows 7. When it appears just click on that.
Step 2: Click on the Network and internet option.
Step 3: In the Network and Sharing Center, you will se View netwrok status and tasks section just select that.
Step 5: From the left side optional panel select the Change adapter settings.
Step 6: Now press the SHIFT key on keyboard and without releasing it click on Wifi adapter and then the ethernet adpater. After that right click on any of them wither Wifi or Ethernet adapter and then select the option Bridge conenctions.
Step 7: As soon you make the bridge between the two adapters the other ethernet devices that connected to your host computer can use the internet connection. When both adapters bound into a single bridge connection, it will show “Enable, Bridge” text on the shared adapters. Furthermore, also a Network bridge adapter will be created by Windows separately from where you can check the IP address range or other properties sharing by both the adapters.
After the bridge Wifi to Ethernet in Windows 10, you don’t need to worry about IP address range. Because both will share the same IP address range. This all process will turn your Windows a kind of middle man through which our ethernet devices use the internet connection.
In this way, you can also test different devices over TCP IP or allow other network users to connect through this computer (enabled with Wi fi hotspot) without using routers.
How to remove or delete the Bridge adpater or connection in Windows?
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- To remove the Bridge connection.
- Just right click on thew newly created Netwrok Bridge adapter.
- Select the Delete option.
- And then you will see, both the adapters will return to thier normal state and work individually as before.