Setting Up a Router. Should it be just used as a router or access point?

[DiamondRyce]

Hello,
I currently live on campus for college at San Jose State. In the dorms the internet connection is done by using an Ethernet cord.
I brought this router http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833168085
I want to have a wireless internet to my moibile devices (ipod touch, iphone, android, etc.)
I already tried just turning off DCHP but it then i t just gave no ip addresses out unless I put one in.

 

[inzone]

If your just using the router in a dorm room then you don't need to set it up as a wireless access point , you just need to set it up as a normal router and you don't want to turn off DHCP.
A wireless access point is to extend a wireless signal , so if you were in a big house and the other end of the house could not get the wireless signal you would put a second router and make it a wireless access point to extend the wireless signal.

 

[bill001g]

It depends how many unique mac addresses the college will allow you to have plug into the jack. If they only allow one you will have to run the router as a router and share a single IP using the NAT and DHCP. If they will allow you to have multiple then just use the router as a AP. I suspect you did not configure the router to AP mode just turning off the DHCP does not make it into a AP.