[AccessD] Second wireless at other end of house

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Apr 23 07:03:10 CDT 2009


Well, I moved everything around and am back up (mostly).  Cable modem and wireless down to the 
basement next to the phone modem.  Cable cut and new connectors crimped on, and routed to that 
wireless router to get the internet up to my office.

It took much of the day because I didn't have the right stuff.  But... it is working now.

Thanks for all the tips.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> 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




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