Silenus
Senior member
A friend of mine lives in a two apartment house with the parents. That have an office in the downstairs of the house with the cable modem, router/wireless, and 8 port switch. Problem is devices upstairs have marginal wireless signal and drop out often.
The good thing is there is a hard line coming off the switch downstairs to one of the upstairs rooms. They want to add another wireless unit upstairs on the same network using that line. Seeing they have a number of Apple devices and need a larger backup device they want to get a time capsule. It seems to me that the time capsule can do everything they need but I need to double check.
--------------------|Downstairs|-----------------------------------------------------------|Upstairs|
[Modem]-->[Router/Wireless/DHCP]-->[Switch]------------------------------------>[Time capsule]
So if the hard line upstairs goes to a SWITCH port on the time capsule (not WAN port), then shut off DHCP in the time capsule....that should work right? Time capsule should should just act as wireless bridge to the rest of the network and devices will get IP's from the router downstairs and still remain all on the same network.
The good thing is there is a hard line coming off the switch downstairs to one of the upstairs rooms. They want to add another wireless unit upstairs on the same network using that line. Seeing they have a number of Apple devices and need a larger backup device they want to get a time capsule. It seems to me that the time capsule can do everything they need but I need to double check.
--------------------|Downstairs|-----------------------------------------------------------|Upstairs|
[Modem]-->[Router/Wireless/DHCP]-->[Switch]------------------------------------>[Time capsule]
So if the hard line upstairs goes to a SWITCH port on the time capsule (not WAN port), then shut off DHCP in the time capsule....that should work right? Time capsule should should just act as wireless bridge to the rest of the network and devices will get IP's from the router downstairs and still remain all on the same network.
