[AccessD] Second wireless at other end of house

Ok, you need to setup your second AP to receive it's IP address through
DHCP, plug it into the LAN ports of your original wireless router, and
you need to give it a different name.

So when you are in the other section of your house you will have to
manually connect to the other AP.

Drew

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Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:27 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

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