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Help me set up my wireless access point

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plaidfro

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So I moved into an above the garage apartment in a home with wireless internet... problem is their wireless router is on the other end of the home and would be a weak connection. There is a CAT5 cable that I can hook my laptop up to for internet access. The homeowner had an extra D-Link wireless router that I can use as a wireless access point. The internet works fine when my laptop is hooked up to the CAT5 cable. I just cant seem to get the laptop to read the wireless router wirelessly when the router is hooked up to the internet.

Help point me in the right direction.

My laptop can read about 10 wireless networks in the area, one has an open connection which I can connect to, it just hasnt listed the router that I just plugged in.. I would prefer to connect to this wireless router as a wireless access point. The router is a d-link DI-624M wireless 108G router. my wireless card is a dell 1390 WLAN minicard.

thanks for any and all input

-Brandon
 
Easy, hook the CAT5 cable to the Wireless Router's WAN/Internet port and then you can either connect your computer a LAN port of the router or to the wireless on the dlink.

If your having problems with the router's wireless, press the reset on it for about 10 seconds to reset to factory and then go into the web based admin page and set it up to your liking. Keep in mine, if your seeing 10 wireless AP's, you may have interference issues so set your channel to the least used of channels 1, 6 & 11
 
Thank you for the replies.

I am just not getting a wireless signal from it...

I will try to reset it and see if I can get a signal.

Right now I am able to plug my laptop directly into the Cat5 and get internet. I can plug the router into the WAN slot and plug my laptop into 1 of the 4 other slots and get internet. But there is no radio signal I can pick up from the router... I will try to reset it and see if that helps.
 
I think the issue is that the router is not broadcasting, at least from what I can tell. I am meeting with an IT guy from work so I will troubleshoot that and get back to you all later today with the results.
 
So the problem the actual routers wireless itself. Even though all the settings were reset, and all the setting were set to broadcast... no broadcasting happened. I tried a 2nd router and the broadcast signal worked fine. So something in the hardware went bad.

Now my question is... can an antenna be pointed in a direction to increase its broadcasting towards one direction? or is making it stand straight up the best way to leave it?
 
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