| reply to ardenj
Re: How to use my Linksys wireless router with my So, in the midst of a home network restructuring I came across this discussion when I had all but given up hope for my project and was able to make a workable solution. However, I have run into one final snare that I cannot seem to resolve.
Here is my situation :
I have a motorola terayon cable modem connected to a motorola wireless router in one end of the house. I have 1 ethernet line running to a computer next to the motorola router and terayon modem, 1 connecting a computer in another room on the other side of the house, and 1 connected to a linksys wireless router (in the wan port). The linksys ssid is used on a wireless desktop to access the network and the internet.
My motorola router's ip address is 192.168.10.1. I configured the Linksys router so that the static ip address is 192.168.10.25 with the default gateway as 192.168.10.1
I can connect to the internet on all 3 computers, but I can only share files and printers between the hardlined computers. The odd part is that I can, from the wireless desktop, connect to the configuration utilities of the linksys router (left at default 192.168.1.1)and the motorola at 192.168.1.1. I can also ping the hardlined computers (192.168.10.2), but they cannot ping back the wireless desktop.
So, assuming the fault lies in the ip address of the wireless desktop (192.168.1.26), the issue becomes changing it to an ip in the range of the motorola...ie making it 192.168.10.26. To do that, however, I must reconfigure my wireless router to share the third column of the ip address, and when I do that I lose my internet connection on the wireless and cannot connect to anything.
Hence, I need to find someway to add the wireless to the network by reconfiguring the router (or so I think), but I do not know how to do so. I can live without everything being on one accessible network, but I have a networked printer that I would prefer to access from all the computers. If someone could help, I would appreciate it, and I would be happy to clarify if any of that didn't make sense. |
