Wireless networking

[mcmad]

MCmad you don’t necessarily need one of these. As long as your printer has a NIC inside then u can just hardwire it to your router or access point...

Im obviously not hitting the right notes with you standin but here goes anyway

As long as the access points are all in the same IP scheme and have the same security settings then you will be fine...

Get one computer hard wired into the new access point and ensure that these settings are the same as on your router:

Security system ( open, shared or not at all)

Wireless session identifier (or wireless network name)

frequency operating range

Wireless transmit speed and or protocol ( 802.11b etc)

heres the most crucial scratched record bit ....

In the same IP range as the routter and clients...

ie: if original router was 192.168.0.1

clinet dhcp range = 192.168.*.*

new access point must be within the dhcp range!!!!!!

yup, Ive got my main laser printer hooked up with its own NIC, the injet is on a print server.

 

[gorby]

yer thats the one, Ive just seen a lot of people buy them needlessly when they could have just wired them into an access point, a wired printer then becomes wireless.

Perhaps i could rap that up in some pr and then sell it

 

[standin wave]

Dazed n Confuzed

As long as the access points are all in the same IP scheme and have the same security settings then you will be fine...

Get one computer hard wired into the new access point and ensure that these settings are the same as on your router:

Security system ( open, shared or not at all)

Wireless session identifier (or wireless network name)

frequency operating range

Wireless transmit speed and or protocol ( 802.11b etc)

heres the most crucial scratched record bit ....

In the same IP range as the routter and clients...

ie: if original router was 192.168.0.1

clinet dhcp range = 192.168.*.*

new access point must be within the dhcp range!!!!!!

Gorby/Mcmad, will give it a go, but I'm still unclear whether the WAP54G CAN be just wireLESS or not and what this 'repeat' mode is?? btw I not have suitable conn on my printer, its USB or parallel. When all my PCs were close enough, they all worked fine printing to it, wirelessly

sw

 

[mcmad]

run the setup disk m8, it will be fine.

 

[gorby]

yes m8 it can work completely independently without getting lonely and needing a wire up its butt

 

[standin wave]

yes m8 it can work completely independently without getting lonely and needing a wire up its butt

wire up my butt, now thats something to try this weekend! I won't blame you when I fry my gpu though

u can tell its friday, I can sense BBQ and beer approaching ...

sw