Workgroup Bridges

[PrimeYeti]

I feel like I must have misunderstood workgroup bridges as they seem super wasteful to me.

From the way I have understood it, it's an AP connected over a wire to a PC. That AP then acts as a station to connect to another AP that provides connectivity. In this situation, why would you waste an entire AP on a single PC rather than just getting a cheap wireless adapter?

It's not specified in Wendell Odom's book but I assume you could plug multiple devices into a switch, then plug the switch into the Workgroup Bridge AP to provide service to all of them. If that's the case then that pretty much answers my question!

[Flavio Miranda · Accepted solution]

Hi @PrimeYeti 

Yes, you undertood it right. Thats the idea of Workgroup bridge. But it is not that bad when you use it for one device instead a wireless adpter as you mentioned, because,  the AP in workgroup bridge can  allow you futher distante than a wireless adapte if you use , for example, a directional antenna. 

 But I agree that make more sense in a scenario where a switch can be used and you can provide connectivity to more devices.

[PrimeYeti]

Hi Flavio,

Thanks for the reply! Glad to know I was thinking along the right lines!

[MHM Cisco World]

Workgroup bridge

Assume you have cameras in one place far away' you want to connect it to your network what is the solution?

Solution is wireless bridge.

You connect camera to AP and AP to AP of your network make bridge some called it mesh.