[dba-Tech] New router network puzzle

Hi Jim,
Actually, I did keep a copy of the specs for the routers in my system.  
Thus, I was able to fix the IP address conflict that did arise.  The new 
router 0 insisted on xxx.xxx.1.x rather than xxx.xxx.0.x for its IP 
address, so I had to change router 1 from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.3.1, 
which worked perfectly.

Now, every computer has access to the internet.  However, I still have 
the issue of there being two networks.  The gateway IP address and the 
WEP key have made the internet access work.  How do I persuade the 
NetGear router - the new router 0 - to join the existing home-office 
network?

And, yes, where I live is a little bit of paradise. It's a heavily 
wooded property with a river that runs through it.  We have the beauty 
and excitement of all four seasons.  We are visited by the deer and the 
turkeys and lots of other wild creatures.  We enjoy the many birds, 
especially the hummingbirds that visit us.  We're in a small town, but 
we're near enough to a bigger town to have the cultural, medical, and 
business advantages of that setting.  Our "big" city is Traverse City, 
with the beautiful twin bays, the annual Cherry Festival, and the annual 
Film Festival.  It's a good place to be.

Thanks for your help on this broadband wireless network puzzle.  I now 
grasp the basics fairly well.  I look forward to understanding a whole 
lot more.

Best regards,
T

Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Tina:
>
> Between the gardening and a coffee and a new counter-top for the last
> bathroom and another coffee and always programming (running late, very late)
> and yet another coffee and doing an HTML page (with tabs on the top
> signifying years and tabs of the side signifying months) and we will have to
> do a grocery and garden run as soon as all the dirt and saw-dust has been
> washed away. How I love Sundays...clear blue sky and cool...perfect ;-)
>
> At the risk of yet digressing again; your place sounds absolutely lovely; a
> real picture postcard home. I can now see why such a complex router layout. 
>
> The Router 0 is the key to everything and of course that failed. Of course
> you have a complete copy of all the specs of all the routers on a handy
> sheet paper and/or maybe the SSID specs are on a label attached to bottom of
> each router just incase anything got lost as the chance of remembering all
> your codes and passwords is 1000:1, unless you have a photographic memory or
> have a standard sequence. If you do not, you will most likely have to reset
> the logins, wifi wise on all the routers and start from scratch. (I hate to
> be the bearer of bad news.) Actually that is the good news as then ever
> computer that accesses the WiFis will have to have their setting changed as
> well.
>
> All I can say at this point is to set up Router0 using the setting from the
> other routers as a base template and then set the appropriate differences as
> outlined in the last post...hope that post was easy to understand.
>
> Right now I am having a problem with my router as it a Gigabit; Dlink DDR.
> Our local ISP uses a method of starting a connection in burst mode and then
> slowing down. My router steps up to the burst mode but does not like to
> resume at a slower speed. In addition we have discovered only one (there are
> probably many) IP addresses that the Router will block for absolutely no
> reason. We actually had the senior tech specialist from Dlink logon and
> test...and yes, it is the case and there is no resolution. (We are using an
> $8 wireless router set to only respond to one IP address and linked around
> the main router and into the switch...and it did take a while to resolve the
> resultant hardware chatter.)
>
> If there is any more help I can give you just send another post.
>
> Jim
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