DSL-2740B + DIR-655 : Is that possible at all ??

[bigthing01]

Hi,

Hope one of you guys out there can give me a hint

I have a new DSL-2740B that is working perfectly. It is connected to my ADSL provider via PPPoE and it quickly serves wirelessly my several PC's/iPhones to let them surf on the internet

The DSL-2740B is in one room (where the phone line is available). The PC's are in another (~10m). Until now I was using a USB/Wifi key to connect from PC to ADSL-router, and hence, moving the key around from PC to PC since there is no easy way to have a cable between those rooms

All I want is the PC's to reach the DSL-2740B wirelessly. This is why I recently bought the DIR-655 .

"The idea" was to have the DIR-655 LAN connected with the PC's in one room, and make it forward the requests for other networks (internet) to the DSL-2740B.

I miserably failed to do so, failed to configure it to work that way...

I feel a bit stupid asking but ... does anyone out there have a tip, an advice, anything to help me ? Is it simply possible to do so ? Is the DIR-655 the wrong equipment ?

Thanks in advance for your feedback,

Best regards,

Paul

 

[thiggins]

Correct, the DIR-655 was the wrong thing to buy. If you don't want to put wireless adapters on each PC, then use a wireless bridge like the D-Link DAP-1522, Cisco/Linksys WET610N, etc.

 

[bigthing01]

Thanks a lot "thiggins" for your answer.

Does this mean I should buy two distinct DAP-1522 simply to do such a bridge ??!?

Because I checked the DAP-1522 PDF documentation (picture on page 2 is explicit) and it looks like I need 2 of them to bridge my networks together. One connected to my DSL-2740B that is connected to internet and wirelessly serving my house, the second connected to my remote small lan of computers to wirelessly bridge it to internet.

Is that correct ? If two of them are always needed, why don't they sell them in duo-pack ??

 

[thiggins]

No, the DAP-1522 (and other bridge products) act like a wireless client that has an Ethernet computer interface (instead of USB, Cardbus, etc.). So it will connect to any wireless router or AP.

 

[bigthing01]

Thanks a lot Sir!

Just wondering why they put 2 of them in the promotional picture, specially the one on the adsl-router side.

I'll buy it and promess : I'll post a reply on the result.

Distinctive regards,

bigthing01

 

[thiggins]

Just wondering why they put 2 of them in the promotional picture, specially the one on the adsl-router side.

Because they want you to believe that you have to use them in pairs. Caveat emptor.

 

[bigthing01]

Dear thiggins,

I promessed it, so here it is.

One hour ago I received my new DAP-1522. Twenty minutes later, it is installed and fully functional.

It is very easy to setup in Bridge mode as only a few parameters are needed.

Except for the "problem" that out-of-the-box it has a TCP/IP address of 192.168.0.50 and that my LAN is on 192.168.1.x, which does not ease the operation.

Five minutes lost isolating a PC, changing its address to 0.x to be able to reach the DAP-1522 and change its TCP-IP address to 1.x. Then restore the PC config and back to normal operation. Now all is connected and recheable on my isolated LAN.

Once configured, my DAP-1522 seamed to be correctly connected to my ADSL-router (DSL-2740B) via WIFI. My LAN was bridged to the ADSL-router.

I then lost at least ten minutes figuring out how to configure the "default gateway" on all workstations on my LAN to reach internet. Sometimes wee are really dumb...

I would say that it reasonably takes 5 minutes to install for someone understanding what it is doing.

Now everything is fine and, again : THANK YOU AGAIN VERY MUCH thiggins !!!

Distinctive regards,

Bigthing01