I have a working LAN --Best Data CMX300V2 cable modem, D-Link DI604 router and a Linksys powerline link to computers elsewhere in the house. The two computers hardwired to the router in the lab work flawlessly at or above the Comcast cable cap of 8 mbps. The two computers on the powerline portion of the LAN drop connections too often to be tolerable any more. The lab is a Faraday cage (solid steel plates in all walls) so a wireless router is out of the question at the place where I make connection to the incoming cable. Running cables to the two computers on the powerline portion of the net is a bigger job than makes any sense -- which is why the powerline link was installed in the first place.
I can run a cable out through the steel walls to a place where there is a good line of sight for a wireless link to the remote computers. To do this I bought a Buffalo WRH-G125 router/access point. At the moment I am trying to set the whole thing up in the lab to get everything working before I do all of the work to set up the wireless access point outside the lab walls. The WRH-G125 has a switch that switches between wireless router function (on) and wireless access point (off). The installation instructions are clear that in WAP mode you should connect one of the LAN ports on the WRH-G125 to one of the ports on the existing router. When set to off, the default IP address in the WRH-G125 is 192.168.11.137. The instructions say to go to the configuation page in the WRH-G125 and set the IP to an unused address in the existing LAN.
To do this I assumed you would simply enter the default address of 192.168.11.137 in the browser which should open the configuration page etc. Instead I get a "The page cannot be displayed" etc. Changing where the ethernet cable is plugged in etc. does not correct the problem. In other words I am unable to access the WRH-G125 from the browser, even though it is hardwired to the LAN router. The last statement is not quite true: when I click on go to the 192.168.11.137 on any of the computers, the wireless LED on the WRH-G125 flickers for several seconds before the error page pops up, so the WAP is being accessed, but the configuation page is not being read.
I am hoping that in the Anand community someone has done just what I am trying to do and used a Buffalo WRH-G125 as a wireless access point to extend a LAN wirelessly and can tell me how they did it.
Thanks for any help or suggestions
Problem solved. Thanks to all of you who looked at the post. I ended up setting up an entirely separate computer cabled to the router, assigning it an IP address in the 192.168.11 range and then got to the configuration menu. After configuring the WRH-G125, I then hardwired it to the router in the LAN and was able to access it. Unfortunately I do not know yet whether it is functioning as a WAP since the wireless NIC I was going to use had a short in it that prevented a computer with it installed from booting. Did I say; I hate networking?
I can run a cable out through the steel walls to a place where there is a good line of sight for a wireless link to the remote computers. To do this I bought a Buffalo WRH-G125 router/access point. At the moment I am trying to set the whole thing up in the lab to get everything working before I do all of the work to set up the wireless access point outside the lab walls. The WRH-G125 has a switch that switches between wireless router function (on) and wireless access point (off). The installation instructions are clear that in WAP mode you should connect one of the LAN ports on the WRH-G125 to one of the ports on the existing router. When set to off, the default IP address in the WRH-G125 is 192.168.11.137. The instructions say to go to the configuation page in the WRH-G125 and set the IP to an unused address in the existing LAN.
To do this I assumed you would simply enter the default address of 192.168.11.137 in the browser which should open the configuration page etc. Instead I get a "The page cannot be displayed" etc. Changing where the ethernet cable is plugged in etc. does not correct the problem. In other words I am unable to access the WRH-G125 from the browser, even though it is hardwired to the LAN router. The last statement is not quite true: when I click on go to the 192.168.11.137 on any of the computers, the wireless LED on the WRH-G125 flickers for several seconds before the error page pops up, so the WAP is being accessed, but the configuation page is not being read.
I am hoping that in the Anand community someone has done just what I am trying to do and used a Buffalo WRH-G125 as a wireless access point to extend a LAN wirelessly and can tell me how they did it.
Thanks for any help or suggestions
Problem solved. Thanks to all of you who looked at the post. I ended up setting up an entirely separate computer cabled to the router, assigning it an IP address in the 192.168.11 range and then got to the configuration menu. After configuring the WRH-G125, I then hardwired it to the router in the LAN and was able to access it. Unfortunately I do not know yet whether it is functioning as a WAP since the wireless NIC I was going to use had a short in it that prevented a computer with it installed from booting. Did I say; I hate networking?
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