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Oct 7, 2006, 07:21 AM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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Network Bridging
I have just moved into a new house, and rang NTL to get cable internet. Apparently there is a three week waiting list for installation at the moment, i guess all the other students are doing the same. My friends a few doors down managed to get in on a cancellation, and i set there wireless up yesterday. Interestingly my friend living downstairs in our house can pick up their network, and after i typed in the WEP password, he can browse the net fine. He has an ethernet card in his laptop, i was wondering whether there is a way to relay the net to our router around the rest of the house? (my friends in the other house are fine with this untill ours is installed, i am not stealing internet!) I tried the connection bridging in xp but this resulted in the loss of net connection. The problem seems to be getting the laptop to see both networks at the same time. My friends router is 192.168.1.1, ours is 192.168.1.254, yet if i try to ping 192.168.1.254 it does this over the wireless, and doesnt find our router. Any ideas? I havent really had any experience with this kind of networking!
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Oct 7, 2006, 09:03 AM
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hmm.....try to disable DHCP, and auto IP addressing to the router itself. see if that works.
if not, see if you can set your router to be just a repeater for the router with the x.x.x.1 address. other than that, i'm not really sure what to do =\. |
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Oct 8, 2006, 05:45 AM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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The router doesnt seem to find the signal from the other router, only the laptop manages to, so I cant set it as a repeater. DHCP settings and IP Addresses dont seem to make a difference, its like it will only send requests over the wireless, or ethernet, but not both.
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Oct 8, 2006, 08:45 AM
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F.U.B.A.R.
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so, if the laptop can find the signal from the other router, why don't you just use that router from your laptop? that is assuming that your buddies downstairs have a router.
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Oct 10, 2006, 05:22 AM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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Because we could only receive their wireless in one room, and i wanted to repeat the signal over the whole house (5 other bedrooms). In the end i came across a spare usb wireless card, popped that into the laptop so it was running two cards, set up network sharing on one and an adhoc network on the other. Works great, im typing this upstairs right now.
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Oct 10, 2006, 11:55 AM
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Noise? What noise?
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Well that's one way to do it
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