home network question

[respawn]

I have 4 pcs at home (wife and mine in the front of the house and the 2 kids at the back).

My and my wife's computer are connected in the home office to the ATT DSL router/modem. And both kids were wired to in the living room. I moved my son's PC back into his room but the wireless connection was bad (not strong all the way to the front office modem). I bought a refurb WNR2000 netgear and connected that to the line going to the livingroom. One kid is hard wired to it and the other is wireless.

The issue is, it seems to be segmenting our home network (all running windows 7). My wife and I can see each other, but the kids can only see themselves. I looked on the netgear and it looked like it was giving out 10.0.0.x ips to the kids' machines whereas ours were 192.168.0.x (granted everyone was online, but not seeing each other in the home group). I changed the setting "use this router as a DHCP server" but then none of the kids could get ips and I can no longer access the router at "routerlogin.com" like before. I was about to factory reset it when I decided to jump on here for help.

I just want to use it as a pass through and have all 4 of us on the same home group as before (with the extension of one kid on wireless). Is this possible? I thought so, but I guess I am getting in over my head. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

You're double-NATting.

You should just be able to turn off the DHCP server and NAT on the WNR2000. (Check the manual.) Then it'll be working in passthrough or bridge mode.

Sometimes you have to plug the ethernet cable into one of the switch ports on the WAP instead of the uplink/WAN port. Depending. (This was true of the last couple Netgear routers I tried, but it's not a universal truth.)

 

[respawn]

Will I still be able to use it as a wireless connection? And will the computers connecting to it get their ips from the DSL modem (just passed from the WNR2000)?

 

[ch33zw1z]

yes, you can still use the wireless. Turn off DHCP on the WNR200, and give it a static LAN IP in the 192.168.0.x range, but not in the main routers DHCP range, typically .100-.150. Plug in the ethernet to one of the 4 LAN ports.

Once that's all done, you will be able to login via the browser to whatever you set the static IP to. Configure the WAP however you want. If you running wireless on the main router as well, you want to make sure it's on different channels. DHCP addresses should all be in the 192.168.0.x