Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 16 22:20:40 CDT 2011
Hi Tina: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but it has been crazy here...a client network crash, coding is well behind and the grass just keeps growing and the gardens are not finished yet... |-P It seems like a fairly complex configuration. Was router 0 connected to a PoE switch? Are all the routers Broadband? It does seem that your little network is maybe a little rich on routers. At quick glance I can not see why Router 0 is needed. A switch (or hubs) should be more the adequate. As you have a number of Routers all except one must have the DNS turned off; each will have a different IP address, within a single range (192.168.111.1, 192.168.111.2 etc.), but the same subnet mask and can not conflict with any connecting computers, which are also in the same IP range. This is all the basics... To eliminate all conflict issues, your new router 0 will have to be setup by itself, directly connected to a PC and directly to the internet so the base configuration can be set as any active/connected component in the network could conflict until the new router's setting are complete. When you finally get the configurations set, save a print page of the setting and save those setting to computer/thumb drive or DVD. It will make it a quicker to rebuild the router is any thing goes wrong within the warranty period. A lot of the above is just a guess as I am having a bit of a problem understanding your network but those are the basics and if there is any other questions feel free to ask. HTH Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris Fields Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:24 PM To: DBA-Tech Subject: [dba-Tech] New router network puzzle Hi All, I have a broadband internet network consisting of the antenna, POE, router0, cabled router1, cabled router2, two computers wireless connected to router1, and 3 computers wireless connected to router2. Router0 is at the POE, router1 and router2 actually serve as wireless access points. All was fine until router0 crapped out today. (I'd been having performance issues for weeks, but thought it was with the ISP.) All three routers were D-Link DL 514. I bought a new NetGear WNDR3400 to replace router0. Now, comes the issue. It wants to establish its own network - which for the nonce I have allowed, because that got me back online. I want it to join the existing network - using the SSID I already have established. How do I do that? I tried just changing its SSID name and feeding it my WEP key. It said that SSID already existed and refused. How do I coax the new router to join the old network and take over for the old router that crapped out? Thanks, T _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com