[AccessD] Second wireless at other end of house

Are the LAN Ports on the second router autosensing X-over?

If not, they may need to be connected to the first switch with a crossover cable (not straight 
through).

What is the make/Model of the second router?

On 22 Apr 2009 at 10:56, jwcolby wrote:

> 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
> 
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