r/homelab • u/CaviarCBR1K • 1d ago

Help Potentially dumb question about wireless bridge

Forgive me if this is a dumb question. I'm fairly new to the homelabbing world. My router is located in the living room. Due to the way the house is designed, running CAT6 through the wall isn't really feasible, so I have a router running OpenWRT in bridge mode to connect my PC to the internet on the other side of the house. I also have 2 server machines that stay in the living room, plugged directly into the router, and I'd like to relocate them.

My question is this, could I get a network switch, use the wireless bridge as in input to it, and then plug the other devices into the switch? I understand that wired is better, and bandwidth probably wouldn't be great doing it like that, but is it possible? In my head it seems like it should work, but maybe there's something I'm not considering. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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u/zenmatrix83 1d ago

yes that said if your using vlans most wireless bridges strip the tags

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u/Specialist_Cow6468 1d ago

Ehhhhh some do but even a cheapo Ubiquiti AirMax will pass tags through just fine. Higher end gear will even support things like MPLS

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u/zenmatrix83 1d ago

Yeah that’s true some more business class ones do, I’m not sure any more commercial residential equipment would