Finding printer across home subnets

[marcplante]

We have FIOS service with a wireless G router. I would like to run an aftermarket Belkin wireless N router, but am having difficulty working across subnets:

I end up with:

192.168.1.xxx

and

192.168.2.xxx

I have a printer and my computer attached to the Internet via Ethernet connections. They live in the 1. subnet.

Anyone that connects via the Belkin wireless router ends up in the 2. subnet.

How do I allow the different devices to see each other across these Subnets? I can't enable printer access across the subnets, and I wanted to use my desktop as a streaming server, but can't do so if the other computers can't see it.

Thanks,

 

[JackMDS]

Do you have to run the Belkin as a Router?

Use it as a switch with an Access Point and configure one Subnet Network.

Wireless Router as an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html



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[marcplante]

K...I'm feeling a litte dense, cause I can't follow that article.

They propose using the FIOS router as the address server and the belkin as a passive access point?

so I need to plug in the belkin router to my PC in setup mode and assign an IP address to it, while turning off DHCP to put it in access point mode?

Then connect to it via one of its output ports rather than the WAN port from the FIOS router?

This leaves me with the FIOS router serving addresses, and the Belkin router simply serving wireless bandwidth and a few ethernet ports...

Belkin documentation for this router doesn't seem to address access point configuration. Should it be pretty apparent?

Thanks,

"knows enough to be dangerous."

 

[marcplante]

Getting warmer. I found documentation on the belkin site. The only thing that strikes me is that they want me to assign an address in the 192.168.2. space rather than the 192.168.1. space. The original article you pointed to seems to indicate that I should set the belkin to 192.168.1.250 to get it in the 192.168.1. space, but keep it "out of the way" my printer is fixed at 192.168.1.75

Thanks



http://en-us-support.belkin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2780/kw/access point configuration

 

[marcplante]

Got it!

Yes, connect the new router to a PC via the PC ethernet port to an ethernet port on the router.

Then assign the appropriate address to the router and turn off DHCP. I thought something was wrong when I got a flashing orange light on the router, but everything works.

Now I only wonder if I can still hook up a USB drive to the router to serve video with Belkins video mover function.