Home network suggestion (3 buildings)

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
G

geopal

Reputable
Aug 16, 2016
12
0
4,510
I got an ADSL line at the basement of one of 3 buildings and want to share this connection to the rest of the house plus 2 more buildings.
Each building has 3 floors and the distance between the buildings is ~20m
I have already connected the 2 other buildings with LAN cable that plug on the modem router, which has DHCP enabled, however it does not seem to work properly.
After setting up the cables, i first tried to connect a wireless switch to each of the buildings, however it sometimes works ok by getting an ip like 192.168.1.xxx, but some other times it does not work at all and the ip its getting is 169.xxx.xxx.xxx
DHCP is disabled on all the switches i used and only the basic modem router has DHCP enabled.
In the building where the modem router is installed, i have installed 2 D-Link WiFi Accesspoints, one on each floor, which connect wirelessly to the modem router and connect OK, except having a high ping time.

I want to have a stable LAN + Internet connection between the 3 buidlings. A total of 10-15 wifi clients will be using the connection, mainly smartphones & TVs
Will buying a new switch which will handle DHCP and the rest of the network solve my case or would you suggest even buying a new modem router that will do everything? The modem router i currently got is a Speedport Entry 2i
 
Solution
B
You need to simplify and test your network piece by piece. The device you call switches likely you should call AP because a true switch does not have wireless.

To start with make sure you can plug a pc directly into the cable that is in the remote buildings. This almost has to work or you would suspect issues with your cables or possibly the router. You can then plug your AP into the cable and a pc into a ethernet port on the AP. This is testing that the AP works without worrying about wireless signals. When this works good you can test using wireless.

Your design is correct. You do not want to run routers (ie devices that give out dhcp) in the remote buildings. It will make things much more complex.

When you do not...
Sort by date Sort by votes
B

bill001g

Titan
Aug 9, 2012
28,317
2,752
125,640
You need to simplify and test your network piece by piece. The device you call switches likely you should call AP because a true switch does not have wireless.

To start with make sure you can plug a pc directly into the cable that is in the remote buildings. This almost has to work or you would suspect issues with your cables or possibly the router. You can then plug your AP into the cable and a pc into a ethernet port on the AP. This is testing that the AP works without worrying about wireless signals. When this works good you can test using wireless.

Your design is correct. You do not want to run routers (ie devices that give out dhcp) in the remote buildings. It will make things much more complex.

When you do not get DHCP from the main router it generally means you have no connection back to the main router. It could be wireless issues or cable issues or maybe the AP has issues. You could try setting a static ip in the machine to test. I am going to bet that when you can not get DHCP you also can not ping the router ip. If only dhcp is affected you have a very strange network issue.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom