so i got a new router from microcenter for free with a coupon i got in the mail. first thing i thought was "oh man, i could use this to extend the range of my wireless network." so i've spent most of today trying to figure out how to make it so that this thing will properly broadcast my network and whatnot but i've run into some difficulties
firstly it's a router, not a switch. so i disabled DHCP right off the bat. i've been told that i have to plug my old router into this one in any of the ports but the internet port on it. so i did that and it wasn't getting assigned an IP address, it was at 0.0.0.0 and i couldn't do anything to change it, no connection was getting through. so i connected it to the internet port and BAM, it worked fine.
so now it's acting like a switch like i wanted it to, the internet loads just fine through it if i have a wired connection, however if i try to connect to it wirelessly it seems to not give out an IP address to whatever is connecting to it. so it's acting like a switch if the devices are plugged in, but i already have a switch for that, the point of this is to extend my wireless network but it's failing at it.
i've tried following a couple of guides like this one
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/mowi/article.php/3828111/Turn-Your-Wireless-Routers-into-Access-Points.htm
but i still have the same problem where a wired connection works, but i wireless one doesn't.
anyone got any ideas as to how i could fix this problem?
by the way, the router is a Tenda, model no: W268R
all security is currently disabled (don't worry, i live i a rural area, closest house to mine is about a half mile away and the closest street is about four hundred yards away, so i don't really have to worry about someone stealing my connection)
firstly it's a router, not a switch. so i disabled DHCP right off the bat. i've been told that i have to plug my old router into this one in any of the ports but the internet port on it. so i did that and it wasn't getting assigned an IP address, it was at 0.0.0.0 and i couldn't do anything to change it, no connection was getting through. so i connected it to the internet port and BAM, it worked fine.
so now it's acting like a switch like i wanted it to, the internet loads just fine through it if i have a wired connection, however if i try to connect to it wirelessly it seems to not give out an IP address to whatever is connecting to it. so it's acting like a switch if the devices are plugged in, but i already have a switch for that, the point of this is to extend my wireless network but it's failing at it.
i've tried following a couple of guides like this one
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/mowi/article.php/3828111/Turn-Your-Wireless-Routers-into-Access-Points.htm
but i still have the same problem where a wired connection works, but i wireless one doesn't.
anyone got any ideas as to how i could fix this problem?
by the way, the router is a Tenda, model no: W268R
all security is currently disabled (don't worry, i live i a rural area, closest house to mine is about a half mile away and the closest street is about four hundred yards away, so i don't really have to worry about someone stealing my connection)
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