Join the existing LAN with a wireless router
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Jan 19 10:36:54 UTC 2006
On Thursday 19 Jan 2006 07:18, Barry Yu wrote:
> In the office there is already an existing LAN with 6 desktop machine
> 1 dns server / dhcp server / gateway, ip address range 10.1.10.110 ~
> 10.1.10.240, connection of entire LAN is by cable with a switch box,
> every machine is working fine. Now I want to add a Linksys router
> WRT54G in the office to enable 2 more laptops ( or more than 2)
> equipped with built-in wireless network card for the network, how
> ever, these laptops can only go to the Internet and communicate with
> other wireless laptop in the same wireless group (Same ssid), but
> can't communicate with those wired desktops, the way I connect the
> wireless router is : With a cat 5 cable one end connects from the
> Internet port of router and the other end goes to one of the port in
> the switch box ( Where all desktops are connected). I would imagin
> that unless all of the desktop each adds a wireless network card to
> enable them to join the wireless network group, otherwise 2 different
> network segments can't communicate at all - Can anyone give some
> ideas how to make the wireless group to join the wired group?
I recently extended my lan by adding a router where another cable was
impossible. I also had problems, and I think that what I did was the
same as you have done. This is what worked for me.
On the new router, ignore the external/internet port of the router.
Take a cable from your existing wall box to one internal port on the
router. For me that meant that I had disconnected one cabled box that
didn't have wireless, so that we then connected through another
internal port on the router. This workstation is the cabled one, but I
also use a wireless-lilnked laptop without any problems.
The gateway address is still the same gateway. The router has its own
IP, but it is really only acting as a hub and wireless A/P. HTH
Anne
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