[AccessD] Second wireless at other end of house

Well, I thought I had it running.  The laptops downstairs could see the second AP but could not 
communicate over it.  Even the Windows Media Center plugged directly into the second router could 
not see the internet.  BTW it did not matter whether I plugged the cable from upstairs into the WAN 
or the switch (LAN ports) the WMC computer could not get to the internet.

I had set up fixed IP addresses for both MACS in the second router.  It turns out that the WAN has a 
MAC address and the WAN has a MAC address.  I gave each of them individual IP addresses (.122.98 and 
.122.99), and was able to get at the second router setup stuff through the WAN IP address when the 
cable was plugged into the WAN port.  I turned off the firewall in the second router.  I turned off 
the DHCP server in the second router.  I turned on broadcasting the router tables, both ways, in 
both routers.

Everything APPEARED to be working when I had it plugged in up in my office but when I moved it 
downstairs... no joy.

Sigh.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Jim Dettman wrote:
> John,
> 
>   No, you definitely don't want the cable on the WAN port.  If you do that,
> you'll have another router in affect.  Right now, with everything in a LAN
> port, your 2nd wireless router is simply acting as a repeater.
> 
>   The channel setup is somewhere in the router's configuration.
> 
> Jim. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:27 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [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