I'm setting up a wire/wireless hybrid network on seven machines for my client. Actually, the idiots at pacbell came and installed a wired network on 5 systems when i wanted to keep everything wireless... so now i am forced to have
Right now my client has Pacbell dsl services... which has alocated 5 ips for their use.
The network is a peer-to-peer win98 network, which in itself is very problematic, becuae half the time you can see the other computers on the network and the other half you can't.
Anyways, here's the scenario. The client wants to use Goldmine 5.0 on all their systems. I've going to setup one machine as a server, and all other machines will run Goldmine off of this machine.
Other than the usual problems with the networking not working (anyone have a sure way to keep the LAN up without any problems for longer than say... a day?)... i'm having a problem with getting the two networks communicating.
The two machines on the wireless network are connected to the wired network via an Access Point (a wireless hub of sorts). I have netbeui installed for local communication, and obviously, TCP/IP is installed on the 5 machines that have their own IP addresses.
Here arises a the main problem. When setting-up the access point, an IP address is required, unless the machine is part of a DHCP (which doesn't exist). I was alotted 5 IP addresses, all of which are taken. The network has a subnet mask of 255.255.255.448 which means that I have 6 hosts to work with... .46, .47, .48, .49, .50 are what have been assigned to me. I was told I should be able to assign the Access Point .51 since it's included in the subnet. But, I don't know if I can because Pacbell hasn't assigned me this IP address. The access point makes no mention of Netbeui compatiblity, which sorta screws me over, because as I mentioned, I want to keep all local trafic under netbeui.
On top of this I am getting verr poor signals from the wireless network. The computers and access points are seperated by about 30-40 feet with a few drywall walls blocking access. The signal should not be this low... it should be much greater... any ideas on how to solve this one?
Does anyone have any ideas how I can solve this problems (communication between the wired systems and wireless systems being the main problem)?
Does anyone know if there will be a problem with Netbeui and the Cisco Aironet 340 Access Point?
Should I dump Netbeui and go for the IPX/SPX compatible protocol instead?
Any any all help will be greatly appreciated.
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