Sorry that I couldn’t explain it well becaupse I’m typing on my iPhone

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It may be possible there is already another machine on the network that has the 192.168.0.2 address, and there is some kind of conflict. Try an oddball address like 192.168.0.173. Just be sure to remember what you set it to so you can get back into the router configuration if that doesn’t do the trick.

The DD-WRT router might have DHCP running on it, which can really muck things up if you already have DHCP running on the main router. On the Setup tab, click Disable for DHCP server.

As a matter of fact, I just bought a new router to connect my new XBox 360. Since it was a brand new router, I decided to leave the default firmware. However, I did have an old router with DD-WRT that I was able to use to connect the XBox 360 without a problem.

I wanted to connect an existing wireless lan network (that doesn’t have internet) onto a network that does have internet. THe wireless network consists of a router and a couple devices.

So I setup a winxp machine with two network cards.. one wireless and one wired. I then configured the wireless card to connect to the wireless lan network, and I plugged in the dsl to the pc’s wired network card.

Then in the Network Connections, I selected both networks, right clicked, and selected Bridge. Now the pc can connect to the internet via the wired dsl and it can connect to the wireless network via the wireless network card. And the router and all the devices on the wireless lan can also see the pc and connect to the internet.

I’d be interested to see if there’s other ways of doing this, but this worked very nicely for my application. The only downside is that the pc must be running inorder for this to work and there’s potentially some security issue I’ve opened by connecting a dsl modem directly to a pc (without using a router).

I’m afraid I must defer to the experts of the wifi forums around the globe to provide the answers you seek. If you’re lucky, you may even find they have already been posted somewhere.

If I am going to get a couple of high gain antenna,please suggest how much dBi and type of antenna should I use if the line of sight is a bit indirect (covered)?

If the line of sight near to my office is a bit covered by a tree top can I combine the use of Omni antenna at my office for the signal to get around the tree than I’m using Directional antenna at my house to get direct signal facing to my office? or else I use both Omni or Direct.

Thank you

Once you have a couple of high-gain antennas, the setup I’ve described here should work with your routers. However, I do believe that D-Link routers are able to connect to each other with the default firmware (you may not need to install DD-WRT). You may want to look around in the administration menus for those routers to see if you can find an option to perform wireless bridging.

Please help me in setting up a distance wireless bridge of network. My intention is to connect 1 or 2 computer in my office to my home network (main) to share internet and network.

I have 1 D-link DI-714P+ at my office and 1 D-link DIR300 with internet connection at my home.The distance between office and my house is about 300-400meters.

Please suggest simplest physical setup and software configuration (as I’m not well verse with networking but I am a fast learner).

Do I have to bridge 2 network or I simply connect 1 computer to network using distance wireless connection?

Thank you

After installing DD-WRT on my router, does my router remain a router or does it turn into a wireless gateway with switching as opposed to routing?

I ask this question because I have been eyeing a Linksys WET200 5 port wireless bridge that is basically a switch, although a pretty smart one (at least it sounds like it is), because it has features like, adhoc or infrastructure mode, VLAN, and quite a few nice sounding features. However, even though it says it has DHCP support, I don’t think it can function as a DHCP server.

Do you know about the wet200 product?

The other reason I ask this question, is although I theoretically own a Linksys router, I loaned it to a different friend after I decided to go with my current switch and separate WiFi adapter setup. Meaning, I am not sure how long it will take to get it back. hahaha . . .

And I am in a hurry, because I’d like to pat myself on the back, but I’m not going to do that until I’ve learned how to be a survivor in the world of domains!

Suggestion comments?

Thanks in advance!

After installing DD-WRT on my router, does my router remain a router or does it turn into a wireless gateway with switching as opposed to routing?

I ask this q

So tell me if I’ve got this figured out not, because I really don’t have a lot of networking experience. Just been reading a lot of books on it.

After updating the Cicso router with DD-WRT would you recommend that I:

1) nix the netgear switch and USB wireless adapters from my desktop network and just plug directly into the Linksys router.

2) reserve the IP address in the Motorola access point that I use in the Cisco wireless router. From your example: reserve 192.168.0.2 in the access point so that it won’t accidentally be leased out to a different machine.

3) Use 192.168.0.2 as my default gateway configuration for the desktops configured with static IP addresses. On the other hand, Once I set up an internal DNS server, I should serve the 192.168.0.2 address as the default gateway?

Thanks in adcance again!

I have been trying to find something like this for the last week. My eyeballs are killing me from reading so many websites.

Here’s my situation and I’d like to get your comments: (do you think this will work or not, and any sugggestions you might have).

Three months ago I was running a standard setup: Cable modem connected to a wireless 4 port router, three workstations wired to the router and one laptop roaming on the wireless. All was well, until I moved . . .

I now live next door to a friend that has cable internet and a wireless connection and I thought, “Hmmm, why should I pay every month for my own internet when I can split the difference with my buddy?” So that is what I set out to do, but it is not seemless and perfect as I’d like it to be.

Here are the specifics:

Buddy’s Setup:

Windows XP Home desktop connected to a Motorola SURFboard SBG900. This is a combination cable modem/router. The SURFboard only has one wired port, but it does DHCP for all connections, wired and wireless.

My Setup:

Three desktops connected with wired adapters via a Netgear switch with static IP addresses.

Each desktop also runs a USB wireless adapter for internet connectivity. So each of my desktop machines has two adapters: 1 wired and 1 wireless.

This has been working fine under a mixture of Windows XP and Windows Vista machines connected as a workgroup, not a domain. I can see all the shares on all computers. I can even see my buddies shares over the airwaves. I even have one of my Vista machines connected to a magicjack telephone and it sends my calls over my USB adapter to my buddies accesspoint and then out the door to the telephony world.

But then I went and downloaded Windows 2008 Server R2 Beta and Ubuntu 8.10 Server from the internet and plan on attempting to setup Domain services. And thats the rub. I am not sure if I should attept to keep my current config or try for the wireless bridge this artile speaks of. I am quite intrigued.

Here are a few concerns:

The magicjack works great as long as I don’t do anything else on the Vista machine that serves it. So i am concerned that a wireless bridge might falter serving the telephone along with my other internet traffic.

That said, it has also occurred to me that maybe i could somehow instruct the Windows and/or Unbuntu server to route my static traffic through my current USB wireless adapter for my wired network’s internet traffic and forget about the bridge all together.

Now and finally, all that said, if you don’t want to delve into my conundrum full ahead. Maybe you could at least answer this question. Will this wireless bridge concept serve my three wired computer (sans the telephone) in a satisfactory manner?

Thank you in advance for your consideration in this mater.

Michael