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Wireless bridge

Okay, so imagine you have two houses that you want to connect to each other so that you can share things like toys and snacks. But these houses are not next to each other, they are really far apart, maybe on opposite sides of a big playground.

Now, you could try yelling really loudly to each other, but that probably wouldn't work very well. What you need is a bridge to go over the playground and connect the two houses together.

Well, a wireless bridge is kind of like that bridge, but instead of connecting two houses, it connects two different networks together.

A network is like a big group of computers, phones, and other devices that can talk to each other and share stuff like files, pictures, and internet access.

So if you have two networks, but they are too far away from each other to talk directly, you can use a wireless bridge to connect them together like a bridge over the playground.

Basically, the wireless bridge uses special technology to send signals between two wireless routers. The signal is like a message that tells the routers to send data back and forth between the two networks.

This way, the devices on the two networks can talk to each other and share things just like they were all on the same network.

And that's pretty much it! A wireless bridge is a way to connect two networks together wirelessly so that they can share things and talk to each other even if they are far apart.
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