What should i get to play local games

thexvital · Sep 3, 2014

Hi,
i am trying to find a good extender or access point that can help me to extend the network by using an Ethernet cable or wireless connection, but what i want to make is to enable the upnp and port forwarding through this extender, because i cant enable it in the main router ( the router and the internet access is not mine). however, i only want it locally through the extender not in the public, so i can transfer files, play local games, access to other devices without any problem

viewtyjoe · Sep 3, 2014

UPnP and port forwarding are only needed for outbound/public traffic on your network anyways. Just get a layer 2 switch or wifi extender and keep the whole thing logically on the same network. Local traffic only cares about local addresses, and as long as it's all logically on the same network it's all local.

thexvital · Sep 3, 2014

viewtyjoe :

Ok, can you give me an example of what should i use?
because i have a wireless extender and when i try to configure it, it starts to refer to the main router gateway ip address and i can't re configure it without reset
what i want is a device i can use to use the wifi network but using it separate and alone without using the router on anything except the network connection

viewtyjoe · Sep 3, 2014

Are you trying to isolate a portion of your network from being connected to the outside at all? If so, you want any old router and just don't hook it up to the outside world.

If you aren't, an extender is going to need the gateway address because that's how the ENTIRE network connects to the outside world, and it can't really direct traffic outside without going through it. For local access, you are dependent on the primary router's DHCP, unless you want your secondary router to handle DHCP and disable it on the primary. Either should theoretically work.

The way most wifi extenders work is by creating a second network (sometimes on a different channel) that is still logically connected to the original network because the extender is connected to the primary network and can repeat traffic out to the main router to go outside if needed or to machines on the primary network that need to be reached.

It should ideally work something like this:

192.168.1.x -> 192.168.1.y -> 192.168.1.1/192.168.1.z
PC on extended network -> extender -> router (if outbound) or PC on main network

thexvital · Sep 3, 2014

viewtyjoe :

Are you trying to isolate a portion of your network from being connected to the outside at all? If so, you want any old router and just don't hook it up to the outside world.

If you aren't, an extender is going to need the gateway address because that's how the ENTIRE network connects to the outside world, and it can't really direct traffic outside without going through it. For local access, you are dependent on the primary router's DHCP, unless you want your secondary router to handle DHCP and disable it on the primary. Either should theoretically work.

The way most wifi extenders work is by creating a second network (sometimes on a different channel) that is still logically connected to the original network because the extender is connected to the primary network and can repeat traffic out to the main router to go outside if needed or to machines on the primary network that need to be reached.

It should ideally work something like this:

192.168.1.x -> 192.168.1.y -> 192.168.1.1/192.168.1.z
PC on extended network -> extender -> router (if outbound) or PC on main network

and on that second network is the sharing allowed between devices? or its up to the main router ?

viewtyjoe · Sep 3, 2014

With a normal extender, there's no issues. The router is only really used by traffic going outside onto the internet. Otherwise, it's simply a switch which will repeat signals out to the correct destination for local traffic.

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