Its okay. We are trying a new plan. There are a couple of options. The thing is that we have a printer that is a network printer with no wireless card in one room. In the other room there is a 2wire dsl modem that we have. We just want to make the printer to work on the network. This is for a small business.
So there are a couple of options we can do. First we can try to bridge the 2wire and a router i have which is the TP-Link. I talked to TP-link and this is what they told me but I do not think it works correctly.
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[FONT="]1. [/FONT][FONT="]If you want to connect your wireless modem to tplink router wirelessly, please make sure your wireless[/FONT]
[FONT="]modem can support bridge mode also.[/FONT]
[FONT="]2. [/FONT][FONT="]please try to log into tplink management page and configure tplink router as bridge mode.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]3. [/FONT][FONT="]please also log into your wireless modem’s management page and do the same configuration on it.[/FONT]
[FONT="]4. [/FONT][FONT="]After that, please try to do the ping test on your pc which is connected to the tplink router.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Start->run box, type in”cmd”, and you can see a black window come up:[/FONT]
[FONT="]Please type “ping +the ip address of your wireless modem”, if you can get 4 replies that means the [/FONT]
[FONT="]connection between the router and your wireless modem has been established.[/FONT]
[FONT="]If not, I’m afraid there is something wrong with your configuration
Second, is to buy another router, and bridge the two routers together. What I mean by that is we buy another TP-link router or netgear router, and bridge those together by plugging 1 router directly into the 2wire and have those 2 routers bridged wireless. Is that possible?
Third option is to do a power line which is 20 bucks on amazon. That might be the cheapest and easiest if we cant think of anything else. I am not sure what power line is but from what I have read is that it will take a cat 5 from the 2wire modem and plug it into the power plug and then put the other adapter in the other room and the signal will carry via the power cables. That might be the best and easiest way right?
What do you guys think is the best option?
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