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[Buffalobiian]

(topic: Computer Networking)[SOLVED]

I want to know if there is a product on the market that will perform this task:

My house's network is as follows:


Router#1 (routing mode) -> Router#2 (wifi, repeating mode) -> PC3
Router#1 (routing mode) -> Router#3 (lan, repeating mode) -> PC1,PC2,PS3.

Currently, Router#3 and Router#1 are connected using a pair of Ethernet over Power modems.

I want to replace these modems with a "Wireless Ethernet port" so to speak. It would be something that plugs into the ethernet port of Router#3 and relay all signals there across the air to the WiFi router. Router#2 would then pick it up and relay it to Router#1, which is my internet gateway.

Anyone heard of anything like this?

(Rephrased a bit, I'm looking for a wireless router that not only has the option of disabling its routing ability and just forward packets unmodified, but also with the ability to connect to other wireless routers as a "wireless client" rather than an Access Point, serving as a shared-wireless adapter for anybody connected to its ethernet ports)

edit: Managed to find a couple that "may" fit my needs. Let's up the difficulty - a product that supports this in WPA encryption?

edit2: Alright, for anyone interested or oblivious like me, this is called a Wireless Distribution System(WDS). Both the Master router and the Repeating router has to support the system to work, and operability across different manufacturers is not guaranteed.

Someone has reported the Netgear DG834G v3 works in WPA encryption, so I'll be looking our for some cheap, used ones.