[AccessD] Second wireless at other end of house

 > What kind of 'cable' is running to the other end of the house?  Another coax, or a Cat-5?

A cat 5.  It runs a gigabit signal from the gigabit switch down from my upstairs office through the 
basement to the other end of the house, and up behind my TV, and then into the WMC computer.

I occasionally have guests come and want to connect down at the other end of the house, even 
downstairs directly below the living room.  I figured if I could get this thing to just broadcast 
the messages coming off that cable (act as an access point) then there would be a second signal, 
complete with its own channel and its own AP name.

I can't seem to do it, but I am not a network guy so I may be missing something simple.


Do I need to feed the cable into the WAN of the second router?

My network uses the IP range 192.168.122.X, with the DHCP Server in the first router being 
192.168.122.1. and the AP name C2Db2.

I assume that I need to turn off the  second router DHCP Server.  It was serving up 192.168.0.X and 
its address was 192.168.0.1.  I tried assigning that "widget" (the piece of the second router that 
has an IP address to AP name C2Db3 and the address 192.168.122.99 but when I did so it gave me a 
warning that I was now on a different subnet and my computer wouldn't be able to see it.  Which was 
true, suddenly I couldn't "see it" via the web address 192.168.0.1 OR the address 192.168.122.99.  I 
kind of figured I would just have to log back on to the latter address and be able to see the router 
there.  No dice.

I have tried running the cable from the switch into the WAN and into one of the 4 LAN ports but in 
no case can my laptop see the second wireless AP.

I am baffled.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Drew Wutka wrote:
> What kind of 'cable' is running to the other end of the house?  Another
> coax, or a Cat-5?
> 
> We used to use DLink wireless access points for wireless access here at
> Marlow.  It worked fine, as long as they were plugged into our network.
> The only real issue is that in one building we had two, and windows
> wouldn't automatically switch to the stronger signal.
> 
> This is because Windows sees two separate APs.  And it is deferring to
> your wireless settings, so it connects to the first one, and if you
> move, it doesn't drop to a stronger signal unless you tell it too.
> 
> We now have Cisco wireless access points, which work off of a
> centralized controller.  All of the access points are seen as the same
> WLAN, so the strongest signal is picked up.  
> 
> Drew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:46 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] Second wireless at other end of house
> 
> I have a cable modem, hooked to a wireless router with 4 ports.  One of
> those ports goes to an 8 
> port switch which is the network in my office.  The wireless is turned
> on and broadcasting on 
> channel 11.
> 
> I have a cable running to the other end of the house which currently
> plugs directly into my Media 
> Center machine which feeds my TV.
> 
> I have a second wireless router.  I want to place that router at the
> other end of the cable 
> downstairs and use it for two things.
> 
> 1) To feed the cable to the Media Center PC.
> 2) To broadcast another wireless signal allowing stronger signal
> wireless at the far end of the 
> house.  I would then set the wireless in this router to channel 1 so
> that the signals are far away 
> from each other in the spectrum.
> 
> I can do #1 by simply plugging in the cable from my office to one of the
> four LAN ports and plugging 
> my Media Center into another LAN port, i.e. use the router as a simple
> switch.
> 
> I haven't a clue how to get #2 to work.  I have tried everything I can
> think of but it simply 
> doesn't work.
> 
> Does anyone have a similar setup functioning?
>