Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Wed Feb 22 10:49:20 CST 2012
Okay, I need to know what that abbreviation means. What is SOHO? T Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com 231-322-2787 On 2/20/2012 12:41 PM, jwcolby wrote: > I have a SOHO. Yesterday the cable company came in to replace the > cable modem and replaced it with an integrated modem / router / > wireless. I like it! It has guest networks and so forth, very modern. > > I use 192.168.122.1 as that base router's IP and the range 10-100 as > the addresses dished out to computers, and I set all that up, turned > on encryption, set the SSID to C2Db1, all the typical setup stuff. > > I have a pair of wrt54gs routers / wireless. I have in the past put > them on the network as access points on either end of the house to > allow better wireless access around the house. I know how to turn > off DHCP server in the access points, set the IP of the access point > router to a fixed address, for which I use 192.168.122.2 / .3 etc. I > set the SSID to unique values C2Db2 and C2Db3 so I can identify each > one for connecting. So I set up two of these "access points" using > two wrt54gs routers with the wan / DHCP turned off. In point of fact, > now that I think of it, I do not know how to specifically "turn off" > the WAN, I just don't use it, connecting all cables to the switch side > of the device. > > So now comes the strange thing. > > I rebooted and my laptop's wired NIC says it is connecting to the > Local Area Connection C2Db3. That should not be possible, since C2Db3 > is not the DHCP server. C2Db3 is one of the WRT54GS routers which is > now only a switch and wireless access point. The laptop does not > connect to C2Db3 (directly) though C2Db3 is plugged into the same > gigabit switch as the laptop (up in my office). > > The connection does work, and it gets out to the internet, it is just > confusing to me. I expected that all of my computers with wired > connections to switches would show C2Db1 as the network, and any > wireless NECS would show the name of the wireless access point that > they came in under. > > Just as an aside, the "show network map" fails miserably and > immediately. All of my switches are dumb (unmanaged) so I was really > only expecting perhaps a basic picture of the network, but nope, > nothing at all except an error message. > > Just as an aside, I have an 8 port gigabit in my office on the second > floor at one end of the house, connected to a 4 port gigabit switch in > the basement at the center of the house. That 4 port is connected to > the new cable modem / router to get at the internet, and is also > connected to an 8 port gigabit switch at the other end of the house > (relative to my office). I recently "wired the house" (myself) > putting boxes in the walls of many of the rooms and running physical > cables to the closest switches. It would have been nice to just have > a 24 port switch and run cables all the way to that switch but that > was not to be. > > Anyhoo, I was wondering what the heck the C2Db3 actually means in > terms of what my laptop thinks it is doing / connecting to with it's > wired NIC. >