taz112576 said:has anyone been able to get this router to bridge with any other router or access point that has been mentioned? Otherwise what good is the bridging feature on this router for anyone that does not already have one of those?
"What good" is this feature?? This product is a router with integrated switch just like all the other consumer-grade routers on the market... except you get the Bridging feature "for free". And the cost is less than most other similar router+switch on the market, none of which offer Bridging.

Quit complaining! Just buy another Belkin 7230-4 for $10 AR next time they are on sale, it happens once or twice a month lately at BB, CC, Cusa.

Alternatively, buy a dedicated wireless bridge or "gaming adapter" for $60-80. But I don't think those are guaranteed to work with all routers, either.

wfay said:
Alternatively, buy a dedicated wireless bridge or "gaming adapter" for $60-80. But I don't think those are guaranteed to work with all routers, either.

Also -a Caveat Emptor and YMMV on those bridges (especially game adaptors)!

Most of tehm are starting to (conveniently) lose the capability of being hooked to a switch and having multiple devices have their DNS & TCP/IP requests forwarded via them to the access point or router serving the wireless network.

So if you have more than one device at a location (eg a home theater PC, TiVo and PS2), you would have to buy 3 bridges!!!!!!! EVIL!

wfay, any idea if you can bridge the 72304 and 72314?

tishoo said:No need to make a frsh thread. The 7231-4 is a 7230 with a tiny bit better firmware (possibly identical hardware, definitely identical other hardware)Thanks for the response, and good point... I think I've even read about people upgrading their 7230-4 to a 7231-4 with firmware, but I don't know any details and don't want to be blamed for people wrecking their routers.

I'm having trouble with print sharing. I can view all the shared documents on my laptop from my desktop and I can see the desktop icon in workgroups from my laptop, but when I try to access it, it says it's not accessible. Have followed all the directions in the print sharing forum, but have had no luck.

Any help is appreciated.

Answers to print sharing and other networking questions are in this sticky in the computer forum

And you cannot use any bridge to turn a USB printer into a network printer. They lack the print server capability.

See the thread above

vpr said:Have anyone tried briding Belkin F5D7230-4 with linksys WRT-54G(firmware from linksys, which comes with the box)

Thanks

I need to know the answer to this question also. Everything I've found about WDS on the WRT54G is bridging two Linksys routers. I had a Belkin network setup and recently got a WRT54G because I needed some more custom stuff in the firmware (mainly QoS), so I loaded up DD-WRT onto the Linksys (which also gave access to WDS). Anyway, I cannot get the WRT54G to see the Belkins (2 of them, now). Can anyone point me to a tutorial or FAQ to help me out?

I'm not even using wpa. I've got the wlan mac address for the blekin in the WDS area of the linksys, and the wlan mac address of the wrt54g in the belkin in the wireless bridge menu, with the belkin set as an ap (not a router). I thought it would be as simple as that, but it's not working.

I just went and picked up the 7230-4's at bestbuy.

Talk about a great deal for $10 each.

I got two, it took me awhile to get everything set up, but now it seems to be working flawlessly. I will update if I get drops etc.


I have two, the 2nd one in bridged mode using WPA w/ AES.

Works awesome! Perfect for my replayTV!

Does any one have a link to the rebate?