Is it possible to go from AAUI port to a wireless network?
If not, is there such a thing as a router with both wireless and hardwire ports?

In article <5f67b3b.0306261732.6d4687ae[at]posting.google.com>,
phoephus[at]hotmail.com (Joe Bartoldus) wrote:

> Is it possible to go from AAUI port to a wireless network?

No.

> If not, is there such a thing as a router with both wireless and hardwire
> ports?

Yes.

Jim

phoephus[at]hotmail.com (Joe Bartoldus) writes:
>
> Is it possible to go from AAUI port to a wireless network?

Sure. AAUI is just a 10M Ethernet port without a tranceiver. So get
a 10BaseT tranceiver for the port (they shouldn't be very expensive),
and run a small Cat5 wire from that to an access point tranceiver.

> If not, is there such a thing as a router with both wireless and
> hardwire ports?

Yes. Several of the popular wireless access routers include
LAN-facing Cat5 ports. If you have one with a single LAN port, you
can attach a hub or switch to it (to allow more than one device to use
the port). If you have one with more than one LAN port (typically
models with a built-in switch), then you don't need an external
hub/switch until you fill up all of its LAN ports.

Just read the packaging closely before you buy, because there are some
wireless access points that don't also have gateway router
capabilities, and there may be some wireless routers that don't have
wired LAN capability. You don't want to buy the wrong model by
mistake.

-- David