Is there a piece of equipment that connects to a wireless network and provides ethernet ports to clients?

Question

Is there a piece of equipment that connects to a wireless network and provides ethernet ports to clients?

I have an existing wireless network, and I would like to plug a bunch of machines into a single switch that uses the wireless network as an uplink.

Is this possible, or is this a bad idea? The bandwidth utilization through this link should be negligible.

Answer 1

You can use a wireless ethernet bridge. One example is http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WET610N

Answer 2

You can do it with commodity wireless router, set in a bridged mode. If the build-in firmware does not support this, you can try some of the opensource firmwares like dd-wrt, openwrt, tomato, etc. Check the hardware support list for these.