I guess this could have gone in the Routers forums, but it could go in here too.
We just moved into a new home. It has a networking closet and almost all the rooms are wired with an ethernet port.
Cox technician setup the ethernet cables in the networking closet and tested the connection in each room to make sure they were working and they all do work.
Now, I've put the cable modem and a Cisco E4200 in the closet.
It's wired like this:
E4200
- Port 1: bedroom 1 - a Cisco SE2500 5-port gigabit switch with a PC and networked printer attached to it
- 2: bedroom 2 - a PC
- 3: bedroom 3 - a second Cisco E4200 w/ DHCP server disabled, NAT disabled and RIP enabled (using this as a second access point since the signal from the E4200 in the closet is very weak. It's configured LAN to LAN according to the instructions on Cisco's site)
- 4: Cisco SE2500 5-port gigabit switch - two other rooms connected to this switch
I've set the SSID, WPA2 + AES encryption and all other wireless settings in both E4200s identically. Same SSIDs, same passwords.
To the wireless network I have a Cisco WET610N w/ an attached SE2500 as well. This SE2500 has a PS3, XBOX360 and Smart TV attached to it.
The problem is that the internet connection and connection to the local network on every PC and networked device works erratically. Sometimes it's working, sometimes it doesn't. We've called Cox to monitor our cable modem for problems and in the past week, there haven't been any problems with the connection from Cox to the cable modem.
I've tried removing that second E4200 in bedroom 3 entirely and it didn't fix the problem.
Anyone have any ideas on what's going on?
We just moved into a new home. It has a networking closet and almost all the rooms are wired with an ethernet port.
Cox technician setup the ethernet cables in the networking closet and tested the connection in each room to make sure they were working and they all do work.
Now, I've put the cable modem and a Cisco E4200 in the closet.
It's wired like this:
E4200
- Port 1: bedroom 1 - a Cisco SE2500 5-port gigabit switch with a PC and networked printer attached to it
- 2: bedroom 2 - a PC
- 3: bedroom 3 - a second Cisco E4200 w/ DHCP server disabled, NAT disabled and RIP enabled (using this as a second access point since the signal from the E4200 in the closet is very weak. It's configured LAN to LAN according to the instructions on Cisco's site)
- 4: Cisco SE2500 5-port gigabit switch - two other rooms connected to this switch
I've set the SSID, WPA2 + AES encryption and all other wireless settings in both E4200s identically. Same SSIDs, same passwords.
To the wireless network I have a Cisco WET610N w/ an attached SE2500 as well. This SE2500 has a PS3, XBOX360 and Smart TV attached to it.
The problem is that the internet connection and connection to the local network on every PC and networked device works erratically. Sometimes it's working, sometimes it doesn't. We've called Cox to monitor our cable modem for problems and in the past week, there haven't been any problems with the connection from Cox to the cable modem.
I've tried removing that second E4200 in bedroom 3 entirely and it didn't fix the problem.
Anyone have any ideas on what's going on?
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