The email below is from a friend of mine who runs a guest house on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. Any help is appreciated.
I created a diagram of his network that you can view at http://ftp.granneman.com/BarryNetwork20090117.png . My initial take is that he shouldn't be using two routers on his network; instead, the guest lounge should have a Linksys Wireless-G Ethernet Bridge in it instead, like this: http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WET54G Note that it only supports wireless, so he'd have to put a wireless card in the guest desktop, or it wouldn't work. However, any suggestions are welcome. Thanks! Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books "In place of fundamental truths I put fundamental probablilities -- provisionally assumed guides by which one lives and thinks." ---Nietzsche (1882) On Jan 10, 2009, at 5:08 PM, Barry Rice wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Happy New Year! Hopefully by the time you get this, Robin will have > described my problem. > > Overview: > > · We moved the office to a room below the deck level. > · At new office I have the DSL Alcadel modem with the > following on the 4 ports: > o Office desktop > o Vonage > o Cat5 wire to guest lounge > o My Sony Laptop > · In the guest lounge I have the old WRT54GS router on the > end of the Cat5 cable with > o A new desktop wired to the router. > o A (current) guest picking up its network on her Ibook > o Both working fine!! > · Now downstairs in the new office, I am trying to connect > my (new) WRT54GS router to the DSL modem > o So that I can wire my Office computer to it. > o Connect wirelessly to my Sony laptop and Roz’s laptop. > o Wire my printer to it. > · This would ultimately leave my DSL modem with 3 connections > o Vonage > o Router up WRT54GS-old > o Router down WRT54GS-new > > > I can get this new router to work when a Sony laptop is wire > connected but not wirelessly. So that’s where I stand. > > Oh boy, I do hope you can help because 2 days of chat and phone > calls to Linksys support have got me ragged. Every agent suggesting > different IP setups…. > > Hope to speak with you soon. > > Barry. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
