Is a Wireless Bridge and Wireless router the same thing?

Question

sorry let me specify, say ur getting something like an xbox or computer, or playstation or something like that, and u wanna connect to internet, would they both work?

Answer 1

Not really, I say wireless bridge are more secure, because they check IPs, routers not so much. :(.

Good luck.

Answer 2

not at all

Answer 3

no.

wireless bridge is used to bridge networks. if you have two LANs or need to link two wifi routers, you use a BRIDGE

wireless router is router that links the LAN to the Internet.

in both cases, they use radio and the 802.11x protocol instead of physical wiring.

Answer 4

No Router forward all traffic without checking destination IP/MAC address

but bridge checks for the destination IP/MAC address before forwarding hence offer more security

Bridges are more like switches than routers which is more like repeaters

Answer 5

A bridge is a piece of hardware that is in place between two different networks and has the intelligence to read and identify IP addresses.

A Hub cannot distinguish IP addresses; only machine addresses, so it stays in a single network.

A Router can work as a bridge and also can split the signal equally between the different computers online at the time.  If more come online the signal is redivided equally between all computers up to the number allowed by the router.  Basic wireless routers allow four computers.

As computers drop offline the signal is redistributed equally between the remaining computers.

Answer 6

A bridge is used to link two networks as a single resource so your view of the network will be of ONE LAN.  An example is that of a small office where the executives have a private network and resources and everyone else is on another private network with their own resources.....the network administrator would need to be connected to a wired or wireless bridge so that he/she can manage the resources on both networks as a SINGLE aggregate resource.

A router will sit on the edge of a network and move traffic from one network to the other, but you may or may not be able to see the other network depending on how the router is set up and the IP schemes that are used.  Such is that of the previous example where the executives are on their own private network to protect their resources and files from the rest of the company.

Answer 7

a wireless bridge is having two wireless devices bridging together or authenticating between each other to connect two seperate networks usually coming off of a switch. if you look at it, it does look like a bridge.

Wirelss router is authenticating to a pc, laptop, or network printer wirelessly directing traffic.

The wireless concept is the same but the router and transmission of traffic acts differently.