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Topic: Wireless Networking Question
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jondster
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posted 02-14-2004 09:32 AM
    
One of you out there has to be knowlegable on WiFi set ups, so please help me out with this.The wife's computer and my HTPC connect to the network via a D-Link DI-614+ wireless router (the other 3 use cat5/NIC). The wife's shows under 50% strength on reception as it's the furthest from the D-Link. However, I happen to have a SoHo wireless router laying around. Same protocol. How do I plug it in to her computer as an access point TO RECEIVE from the network, not set up as a seperate access point ? This should get her more range, I would think. It's gotta be easy ... -------------------- No Sig
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jondster
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posted 02-15-2004 10:32 AM
Yeah Grump, Windows provides 128 bit encryption (or is it 256 ?). All users of the LAN have to use the same key. My nextdoor neighbor's wireless LAN shows up on my computer as an available network, but I can't get on it because he encrypted, as did I.Cac ~ what I'm thinking of here is using the second wireless router as a "receiver" instead of using it as it's own access point and network, and hopefully effectively double the range in the LAN. I would guess it would be the same as "lily-padding" but I never read where to do that. Essentially what you're saying is turn off the DHCPing and force it to join the existing LAN ? Would we assume that router #1 (the D-Lonk) will assign router #2 an IP in the 192.168.0.X range and it's "in" ? [ 02-15-2004: Message edited by: jondster ] -------------------- No Sig
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Cacophonous
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posted 02-15-2004 12:58 PM
Jon/grumpy - Besides encryption I would also turn SSID broadcasting off that way nobody would even see your network in the first place. You have to manually configure the SSID name on your wireless devices (laptop/desktops) though.
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Back to your original queston yes turn DHCP to make a router act like a hub/access point. You will have to give it a LAN IP in your D-Link's DHCP range. However I think you need to wire it from the D-Link (daisy chain)lan out to it's WAN input. I'm not sure if you can use it totally wireless. I have set up a few wireless networks recently but all with only one access point and for sure none using an access point as a 'receiver'. I don't mind looking into it for you. I did one setup where I used an external (USB) wireless network adapter as an access point. -------------------- ...
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SnOrfus
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posted 02-15-2004 03:12 PM
just set your other router as an access point if it is capable, and have it connect to your d-link router/network. I think there should be a setting to specify the gateway ip or network to join - look on the router's local web page (usually 192.168.2.1). I think you'll also have to keep dhcp enabled so that it can assign ip's to clients... but I'm not 100% on whether the d-link will give an ip to the other router and that the other router will just give ip's to its own clients, or whether the d-link will handle all of the clients and the access point will act as a hub. I would assume the former myself... or else it would just be called a wireless hub... -------------------- - SnOrfus
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Cacophonous
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posted 02-18-2004 09:37 AM
Jon - Another thing I thought of... Do you have WEP enabled? You can expect a 20-50% decrease in speed when running WEP. -------------------- ...
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