Re: Networking wifi and wired

From: Keppy (keppy_at_msn.com)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:13:29 -0700

WOW, that's great instructions Steve! Don't go away, I may need your advice
one day too :-)

"Steve Winograd [MVP]" <winograd@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:niagc01t66qms1l2vcc933o9girl7hb1d1@4ax.com...
> In article <1a7b001c44e78$6d0babe0$a101280a@phx.gbl>, "Charlie"
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >I have 2 computers in an office networked together thru a
> >wired router and wireless router. The internet comes
> >thru a dsl modem and into the wired router with a
> >connection to a computer and to the wireless router. The
> >wireless router internet connection is fed via the wired
> >router. The wireless router also connects to a office
> >network computer.
> >This set up was given to me by Linksys support.
> >I have a computer in my garage with a wifi card. I
> >receive an internet connection via the wireless. I can
> >not see my office computers not can the office computers
> >see the garage computer. I have run the XP "setup a home
> >or small ofice" and made a network disk numerous times.
> >I have looked high and low on the internet. Any ideas?
>
> I don't think that Linksys' suggested setup can do what you want. The
> two routers create two different physical networks that can't
> communicate with each other.
>
> The simplest solution is to remove the wired router from the setup and
> use only the wireless router. Connect all of the wired computers to
> LAN ports of the wireless router.
>
> If that isn't possible (because, for example, the wireless router
> doesn't have enough LAN ports for all of the wired computers), the
> solution is to use the wireless router as a wireless access point
> only, bypassing its routing capability. That will let all of the
> computers, wired and wireless, communicate with each other in a single
> physical network:
>
> 1. Disconnect the wireless router from the wired router.
>
> 2. Determine the LAN IP address of the wired router. For Linksys
> routers, it's usually 192.168.1.1.
>
> 3. Connect a cable between the wireless router and one of the
> computers. Using that computer, access the wireless router's built-in
> web server. For Linksys routers, it's usually http://192.168.1.1 .
>
> 4. Disable the wireless router's built-in DHCP server.
>
> 5. Change the wireless router's LAN IP address to be in the same
> subnet as the wired router. For example, if the wired router's LAN IP
> address 192.168.x.1, set the wireless router to 192.168.x.254, using
> the same third number on each.
>
> 6. Connect a LAN port on the wireless router to a LAN port on the
> wired router. Don't connect anything to the wireless router's WAN
> (Internet) port. You might need to use an uplink port on one router
> or connect the computers using a crossover Ethernet cable.
>
> 7. Disable and then enable the network connection (wired or wireless)
> on each computer.
> --
> Best Wishes,
> Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
>
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> for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions
> addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups.
>
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