I currently have a Netgear MR814 hooked up to my broadband connection. It acts as my router, switch, and access point. In another room, I have two computers I'd like to wire for Internet access, and running a wire isn't an option. With this in mind I purchased an MS MN-500 wireless access point/switch/router and hooked that up to my second network. I kind of figured that if I just set the SSID and the channel the same, and disabled WEP that I'd be in business as far as networking went. 4 hair-pulling hours later nothing works still and I have no idea why, and I was hoping you guys could help.
My MR814 is set to automatically distribute IP addresses to all wireless comers. In fact, I even setup a special IP address just for the MN-500 based on its MAC address and host name, but the MN-500 just refuses to connect. On the MN-500 side, I've tried setting my connection to automatic to no avail, static with manually inputed information to no avail, and something they call bridging mode which disabled NAT and all the routing functions, again to no avail. Things seem to work in bridging mode if I connect one of the MR814's ports to the MN-500's uplink, so that suggests to me that it should work. However, it just doesn't seem to be trying at all to listen on its wireless and if I unplug the uplink the MN-500 claims it can't find any Internet connection.
I'm pretty much at wit's end on this. Is there any way for me to get this working? I'm not picky, as long as the Internet works on the other side I'm okay with pretty much any hacked up configuration...
This article does what I'm looking to do, but they're using Apple Airports, and I'm not a Mac user, nor especially eager to spend a lot buying Airports...
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084046/
My MR814 is set to automatically distribute IP addresses to all wireless comers. In fact, I even setup a special IP address just for the MN-500 based on its MAC address and host name, but the MN-500 just refuses to connect. On the MN-500 side, I've tried setting my connection to automatic to no avail, static with manually inputed information to no avail, and something they call bridging mode which disabled NAT and all the routing functions, again to no avail. Things seem to work in bridging mode if I connect one of the MR814's ports to the MN-500's uplink, so that suggests to me that it should work. However, it just doesn't seem to be trying at all to listen on its wireless and if I unplug the uplink the MN-500 claims it can't find any Internet connection.
I'm pretty much at wit's end on this. Is there any way for me to get this working? I'm not picky, as long as the Internet works on the other side I'm okay with pretty much any hacked up configuration...
This article does what I'm looking to do, but they're using Apple Airports, and I'm not a Mac user, nor especially eager to spend a lot buying Airports...
http://slate.msn.com/id/2084046/
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