# Question on wireless routers

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 25, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-wireless-routers/699579 "2014-09-25T23:38:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-wireless-routers/699579/1 "2014-09-25T23:38:48Z")

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I havn’t seen this doing a google search. Completely unrelated to my other thread but can I get a wireless router to talk to another router (wifi DSL) wirelessly of do they have to be hardwired?

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**Author:** ![zoltar7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b38774/32.png) [@zoltar7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoltar7)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-wireless-routers/699579/2 "2014-09-25T23:56:31Z")

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If your firmware has the capability, you could set it up as a [wireless repeater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_repeater).

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**Author:** ![zoltar7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b38774/32.png) [@zoltar7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoltar7)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-wireless-routers/699579/3 "2014-09-26T00:02:19Z")

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DD-WRT also supports wifi for the WAN connection: [http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client\_Mode\_Wireless](http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Mode_Wireless), other firmware may have this feature as well.

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-on-wireless-routers/699579/4 "2014-09-26T02:12:13Z")

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> [@zoltar7](#):
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> DD-WRT also supports wifi for the WAN connection: [Client Mode - DD-WRT Wiki](http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Mode_Wireless), other firmware may have this feature as well.

It might be called “client bridge”… But bridge means to make one LAN, as if it were wired with switches… While a wireless router MAY be expected to provide security, eg due to NAT as a firewall technique, so that makes a new LAN and its definitely a router in between. …So its called client mode… or wireless for WAN.