[AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)

I had daisy chained a wireless router off my wired router - turned off the
dhcp in the wireless.  It worked but the wireless machine connection was
unstable.  Then a power outage hosed the wired router so I chucked it and
went with the wireless which was fine because I have 4 machines in wire
range and Pundit's as the fifth wireless.  Now her connection is much more
stable.

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:46 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)


> Yes, you can indeed daisy chain routers and SUPPOSEDLY hubs, though I had
no
> joy doing that with my old hub.  I am however daisy chaining my old 4 port
> router off of my new 4 port wireless router.  The newer models even figure
> out what kind of cable you are using, crossover or regular.  The biggest
> issue there was that the router was the dhcp server so I had to turn off
the
> old as a dhcp server and turn on the new.  I also hardwired the address of
> the old router to 192.168.1.2.  Daisy Chaining two 4 port routers isn't a
> panacea however since you now end up using two ports just for the daisy
> chain and have 6 left.  In my case though I also have a wireless so I can
> get my laptop in through that and could also get other computers in if
> needed.
>
> I have an old model I TIVO which I modded to use the internet to "call in"
> for programming.  I had to snake a cable down the wall from the living
room
> (luckily exactly over my office in the basement).  I understand that the
> model II has USB ports that can automatically use the USB wireless cards
to
> connect to the internet.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin -
> Beach Access Software
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:33 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)
>
>
> John:
>
> I heard that you can daisy chain hubs off one of the ports on your router
to
> get more ports and that you can go up to 255 devices from one router this
> way.  Seems to easy and cheap, though.
>
> I've also found that when creating a new network it sometimes takes a few
> minutes for the different shared devices to 'see' each other - especially
on
> the wireless.  So I'll whang around frustrated trying to get the network
to
> work and then have the same experience you had - after a few minutes,
> suddenly the other machines are in my network neighborhood.  Go figure.
>
> Rocky
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "Database Advisors Inc. (Tech)" <Dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com>;
> "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:39 PM
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)
>
>
> > I ordered a Netgear MR814v2 Wireless router a couple of weeks ago.  I
> needed
> > to expand my 4 port router (I had 5 things I kept needing to plug in)
and
> > the Netgear was on sale at www.Newegg.com at the time.  I then tried and
> > failed to install a linksys WPC11v2.5 I had laying around, so I ordered
a
> > dlink dwl-650 that was on sale (rebate) at www.newegg.com.  Long story
> > short, it didn't work.  Long story a little longer, a very long call to
> > dlink tech support, did not solve the problem.
> >
> > Or maaaaaybe it did.  After failing to figure anything out, they
> recommended
> > that I upgrade my laptop bios.  It's an ancient (now) 233mhz PII Toshiba
> > Satellite 4000 that I bought with my first paycheck from my trip to work
> for
> > Mr. Breen in Dublin Ireland back in hmmm..... November 1997?  Getting a
> bit
> > long in the tooth, truth be told.
> >
> > The bios upgrade and also the old "turn off NAV before installing etc.
> And
> > "oh by the way, our card requires at least a 300 mhz processor.  So I
> > uninstalled, upgraded to the latest bios (May 2000?), turned off NAV,
> > reinstalled the drivers and re-installed the card.  Still no joy.  The
> site
> > survey showed no transmitters, and dlink tech support assured me that if
> > there was a transmitter I would see it regardless.
> >
> > Ignorant liars!
> >
> > Went back in and reconfigured the card in the laptop for channel 11 (it
> > defaulted to 3 and the router was on 11), played around with a couple of
> > other things and boom, I see a transmitter.  Went in to the router
config
> > page and changed the SSID and sure enough the thing I'm seeing on the
> laptop
> > changes to match!  Still no connection though.
> >
> > Rebooted, played around some more and suddenly (no clear idea why) I
have
> a
> > wireless connection, can browse my network and see the web.  Yeaaaaa.
> >
> > Moral of the story, tech support generally sucks, play around, don't
quit,
> > and eventually the gods will reward you.  Or not.
> >
> > Now, I need to know what to do to tighten this thing up so that others
> can't
> > see my network.  I'm a bit afraid to touch anything since I don't really
> > know what I did to finally get it running.
> >
> > Can anyone walk me through tightening this up?
> >
> > John W. Colby
> > www.colbyconsulting.com
> >
> >
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