Re: adding wireless access points (WAP's) to my network - can't get it to work
- From: "Mike Webb" <Mike_Webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:41:26 -0600
Got the desktop wireless card (Linksys D-LINK DWL-G250M) installed on a PC.
Install went fine. From the utility I can see all 3 access points. Signal
strength is listed as ~75, 33 and 18 (%?). All bars on taskbar icon are
green indicating good connection. Problem is the IP. Can't get it to
release/renew so it can get an IP from the router. Stays on default IP of
169.~. I checked the log on the router and see where it's handed out
192.168.1.11 and .12 - and I'm sure it's to the PC when I initiated the
process, but it's not quite working at the PC end.
I'm using the 75 % strength WAP to connect to. Should be sufficient.
Should I disable the local connection? Am at a loss on where to go from
here (although I AM closer!)
Mike
"Owen Williams" <Owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e7b5b1ccd998a5e989728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mike:
It sounds like you will have only one WAP directly wired to the router.
The others will function as wireless repeaters and will not be wired to
the router.
If that's correct: [1] There is some special setup required to make that
work (check the WAP54g manual) and [2] Your wireless throughput will
drop by 50%, since the non-wired WAPs must received a packet from the
wired WAP then repeat it. Ditto on the return path: They receive from a
wireless PC then repeat it so the wired WAP can pick it up.
-- Owen Williams
In article <OLnjm5ERGHA.5808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike_Webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Background: Our "compound" is composed of 5 buildings -- admin, a
dormitory
for up to 40 people, a small laboratory, and two houses used to house
long-term graduate students. Due to the distances (straight-line), the
vendor I worked with recommended 3 WAP's - one in the center of the admin
building, one in the dormitory and one in a house. In this way, no one
building is more than 4-500 feet from a WAP. Easily handled by the
Linksys
WAP54GX.
The WAP in the admin building is, and will stay, wired to the router. In
that way it can "talk" to the other WAP's so they can handle any wireless
clients. The router is set to handle it's own DHCP through the WAP's,
with
the address field set to 192.168.1.11 through 192.168.1.239. The subnet
mask is 255.255.255.0 and the IP of the router is 192.168.1.1. I've set
the
IP's for the WAP's to 192.168.1.5 through .7 by selecting Static IP from
the
configuration dropdown.
I can browse to the admin WAP by web-browser and just confirmed the
subnet
mask is correct and the gateway is set for the router's IP.
.
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