using a wireless router as a switch and access point

[lazybum550]

Hello, I recently bought a Dlink wireless router with a built in 4 port switch (DL-614+). I was wondering how i can use the router as just a switch and access point? I am a college student in a dorm with a 10 base t ethernet port but I have 2 computers. I used a crossover cable to connect the wall jack to one of the switch's ports(not the wan port). When i do this i can access the network and internet to a computer that I wired to the router/switch but my laptop with wireless does not get an internet connection, it can connect to the network because I can access the router's setting through the wireless network. When i did this with my belkin wireless router/switch I got an internet connection with both the wired and wireless computers.

 

[lazybum550]

anybody?

 

[JackMDS]

You can use it has a switch and AP. Your problem stem from your Dorm connection.

In order to use two computers surfing the Internet, you need two either two static IPs, or a Router (in a setting that accept a Router).

Other wise you have to put two NICs in your wired computer, connect one to the dorm Net, and the other to a regular port on your Router, disable DHCP in the Router, and install software NAT (ICS) on the all computers.

 

[lazybum550]

it works if i connect my laptop to the switch using the ethernet port so thats not the problem.

 

[Mac]

Was hoping this would answer a related question. Is there a way to disable the router capability of a Netgear MR814 or MR314 (both are 4 port wireless routers) and convert it to strictly a switch with uplink capabilities to a router or another switch? I have both of these units. The MR314 is currently handling a "true" router role, attached to cable modem, and also being used as a WAP. Most of the rooms in my home are running on a hardwired CAT-5 network but have two computers (one a laptop) which use the wireless mode. The MR314 has performed very well but do to the location of the cable connection(corner room) and the floorplan of my home, the signal strength falls off in some rooms due to intervening walls.

Without thinking it all the way through, I recently jumped on a hot deal for the MR814. The plan was to install it (or the MR314) on the other side of my home in a room wired for CAT5 and use it as another WAP to improve the wireless coverage. Wasn't until I started to actually plan out the install that I began to wonder if I could uplink either unit and use it strictly as a switch with a WAP. Haven't done anything, yet (busy with the holiday) but wanted to make sure this will work before I start to setting it up.

Thanks in advance.

 

[lazybum550]

i just want to use my wireless router/switch as a wap. But i can't seem to do that. I tried disabling dhcp but that still doesn't work

 

[JackMDS]

As a first step, disconnect the Dorm plug.

Put the Computer in on one regular port, and set the working Wireless Network between the tow computers.

The ability to see the Router from the Laptop, means that there is a working signal not necessarily a working Network.

Once you have a working Network connect the Dorm jack to a third regular port, and check if the Laptop get a working IP that is part of the dorm IP band.