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No wires required. WDS (wireless distribution system) is used to repeat the network one or more times. It works nicely to wirelessly extend a WLAN, but:
- Each hop halves the bandwidth. Your scenario would burn 1/2 the natural bandwidth moving the extra traffic. (not a big deal unless you're sharing files locally)
- Many implementations are stuck at weak WEP encryption (Dynamic keys are out altogether unless you go with an enterprise solution) (This wasn't really handled well in 802.11 so fixes are best effort or proprietary)
I can't remember now if the the WRT54G v5 can serve a Tomato radio with WPA encryption but the GL version can, using alternate firmware. Buffalo radios have become popular because they're faster, a bit more reliable, have more RAM, are less expensive, and have more features even with the stock firmware.
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