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Simonj64
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Hi,
Just registerd with this site and are in a real pickle.
Just had an ethernet backbone put through part of my house and the builders / electricians seem to have not done what I thought they would do which was to enable the main part of the house utilise a wireless router - an ethernet cable from this down into a basement where all the ethernet cables /hub etc are.
What I have got is the phone point coming into my house routed to my basement and this connects into my wireless router. Problem is for the main part of the house (which was to be served using the wireless router) cannot see the router so there is no internet connection in this part of the house. The solution to this I thought, was to use a second router, further upstairs in a part of the house where there is ethernet cabling, as an access point which can then provide wireless access to the rest of the house.
i have followed the sections on how to convert a wireless router to access point - on the AP modem turn off DCHP - I did not have to change the IP address since the address in this was outside the range of the DCHP on the wireless router (and in fact I was unable to change the local IP address on this router since when I tried to change it is said the IP address was invalid).
Anyway I've connected the AP modem via an ethernet cable to the ehternet switch box and then into the wireless router - but I am unable to log on to this AP.
So followed the instructions but nothing works ! What can I try - port light is on the AP, but unless I physically connect a ethernet cable from the laptop to the "AP" router - nothing.
So is there anything else i should be doing (WEP key is required for this modem - not sure if its a facotry setting) but as you may see I am out of my depth on this. AP router is a Siemes Gigaset SE587 WLAN dsl supplied by Tiscali, the current wireless router is a NetgearDG834GT
Look forward to any reples
thanks
Simon
Just registerd with this site and are in a real pickle.
Just had an ethernet backbone put through part of my house and the builders / electricians seem to have not done what I thought they would do which was to enable the main part of the house utilise a wireless router - an ethernet cable from this down into a basement where all the ethernet cables /hub etc are.
What I have got is the phone point coming into my house routed to my basement and this connects into my wireless router. Problem is for the main part of the house (which was to be served using the wireless router) cannot see the router so there is no internet connection in this part of the house. The solution to this I thought, was to use a second router, further upstairs in a part of the house where there is ethernet cabling, as an access point which can then provide wireless access to the rest of the house.
i have followed the sections on how to convert a wireless router to access point - on the AP modem turn off DCHP - I did not have to change the IP address since the address in this was outside the range of the DCHP on the wireless router (and in fact I was unable to change the local IP address on this router since when I tried to change it is said the IP address was invalid).
Anyway I've connected the AP modem via an ethernet cable to the ehternet switch box and then into the wireless router - but I am unable to log on to this AP.
So followed the instructions but nothing works ! What can I try - port light is on the AP, but unless I physically connect a ethernet cable from the laptop to the "AP" router - nothing.
So is there anything else i should be doing (WEP key is required for this modem - not sure if its a facotry setting) but as you may see I am out of my depth on this. AP router is a Siemes Gigaset SE587 WLAN dsl supplied by Tiscali, the current wireless router is a NetgearDG834GT
Look forward to any reples
thanks
Simon