Wireless Ethernet Bridge

It is easy to find ethernet-enabled peripherals such as: printers, game-consoles, time-attendance machines, data-logger, etc. Indeed, years ago ethernet is very popular.

Now everything is going to be wireless. How if we want our ethernet peripherals go wireless too? How if you want your Ethernet-Embedded-System become ‘WiFi-Embedded-System’? The easiest way is to attach a Wireless Ethernet Bridge. Attach this cool device, and you now have WiFi
enabled device.

Ethernet to WiFi Bridging

A Wireless ethernet bridge sometimes also called wireless media adapters as they enable devices for Wi-Fi utilizing Ethernet. Following are some popular wireless ethernet bridge in market. Some of them are ordinary WiFi access point which has ability to be configured as wireless ethernet bridge.

LinkSys WET54GÂ Wireless Ethernet Bridge

WET54G support wireless protocol 802.11b/g. The highest speed up to 54Mbps (OFDM protocol), which is usually used in wireless backbone/backhaul system. If you know LinkSys WET11, 802.11b wireless ethernet bridge, it is clear to see that WET54G is superset of the discontinued WET11.

LinkSys WET54G does not require driver, configuration is established via browser. It has internal web-server which handle HTTP request for configuration purpose.

LinkSys WET54G has capability to use PoE(Power over Ethernet). If you have PoE adapter and appropriate wire, you can power up WET54G using this line, does not need additional power supply cabling.

Specification of LinkSys WET54G Wireless
Ethernet Bridge:

LinkSys WET54GS5 Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge with 5-Port Switch

The Linksys WET54GS5 can connect up to 5 embedded-ethernet peripherals directly to the high-speed 10/100 ports. All five ports are auto speed negotiating, and have automatic cable-crossover detection. All wireless transmissions can be secured with up to 128-bit encryption (firmware version 4.91, April 2005 ).

LinkSys WET54GS5 Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge with 5-Port
Switch

The switch supports VPN pass through and port-forwarding. You can partition your network into up to 64 VLANs, using port-based 802.1q tagging. It also supports 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol to prevent network loops. You can enable QoS on the switch side, with 4 levels of prioritization by port, 802.1p, ToS or DiffServ methods.

Just like LinkSys WET54G and WET11, Linksys WET54GS5 also has embedded web-server to serve device configuration.

Specification of LinkSys WET54GS5 Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge with 5-Port Switch:

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