Read old posts about Access Points vs Bridging two routers to extend network.
I've been trying to solve a home network problem for a while now.
My main router is D-Link DIR-655. It gets my ISP signal on the WAN port.
Laptops anywhere in house can connect via wifi. Router is DHCP enabled and assigns each its IP address. So far most computers are Windows 7, but I do have one that runs Ubuntu. Since router is right next to my living room TV and the Ubuntu PC, I hard wire the Ubuntu on one of the LAN ports and connect its HDMI cable to TV to stream XBMC.
Now, my main desktop is in my bedroom some distance away. It has a Netgear Rangemax PCI adapter and can connect to the wireless network. Close by I have a tower that has no wifi.
I wanted to connect it to the wireless network to be able to share files.
My thought was first to just use a crossover ethernet cable to the Netgear one via their ethernet adapters.
But the adapters' network is not same as the wireless and I had strange one-way sharing (could not join each other's homegroups). I battled trying to get that to work and finally gave up.
Then, I bought a couple of powerline adapters, connected one to one of the DIR's LAN ports and the other in my room thinking I could connect the signal from it to the no wifi tower's ethernet adapter and share its files that way, but still I can't seem to make that work.
So then I started looking for another way and I read up on the Access Points or Bridging routers. I found an old DL-624 and tried to connect the two routers wirelessly.
I found instructions to essentially set up the DL this way::
Set the Wireless channel different from the DIR-655's; that I could do.
Set a Static IP Address in the WAN section (different from the DIR's; that I could also do.
Turn off DHCP in the DI-624; OK.
Set a LAN IP in the range of the WAN IP.
The problem is that the moment I saved the static IP addresses, I could not establish a connection to the DL router again.
What am I doing wrong?
I am willing to try any alternative ideas.
I've been trying to solve a home network problem for a while now.
My main router is D-Link DIR-655. It gets my ISP signal on the WAN port.
Laptops anywhere in house can connect via wifi. Router is DHCP enabled and assigns each its IP address. So far most computers are Windows 7, but I do have one that runs Ubuntu. Since router is right next to my living room TV and the Ubuntu PC, I hard wire the Ubuntu on one of the LAN ports and connect its HDMI cable to TV to stream XBMC.
Now, my main desktop is in my bedroom some distance away. It has a Netgear Rangemax PCI adapter and can connect to the wireless network. Close by I have a tower that has no wifi.
I wanted to connect it to the wireless network to be able to share files.
My thought was first to just use a crossover ethernet cable to the Netgear one via their ethernet adapters.
But the adapters' network is not same as the wireless and I had strange one-way sharing (could not join each other's homegroups). I battled trying to get that to work and finally gave up.
Then, I bought a couple of powerline adapters, connected one to one of the DIR's LAN ports and the other in my room thinking I could connect the signal from it to the no wifi tower's ethernet adapter and share its files that way, but still I can't seem to make that work.
So then I started looking for another way and I read up on the Access Points or Bridging routers. I found an old DL-624 and tried to connect the two routers wirelessly.
I found instructions to essentially set up the DL this way::
Set the Wireless channel different from the DIR-655's; that I could do.
Set a Static IP Address in the WAN section (different from the DIR's; that I could also do.
Turn off DHCP in the DI-624; OK.
Set a LAN IP in the range of the WAN IP.
The problem is that the moment I saved the static IP addresses, I could not establish a connection to the DL router again.
What am I doing wrong?
I am willing to try any alternative ideas.
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