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Extending my wired network

Hi. I have a wired network in one building that is hardwired to another building. In the second building there is one Lan port. I wish to hook up a number of PC's to this network at various distances from this solitary lan port. So I want to go wireless.

I purchased a Netgear WG302 Wireless Access Point.

I added some wireless cards to a pc to test. I can connect to the network and see the computers in the first building. However I can't connect to the Internet, a shared internet connection.

Have I set things up incorrectly??

baconyi

what do you mean you have a wired network hard wired to another building? do you mean they are both on the same network? building a can see building b?

if that is true then check out the status of your WAP
is it getting dhcp off the network or is it set to a static ip?
if its set to a different static ip, then of course you have to change that to an address on your network

and what do you mean by shared internet connection? you have 1 computer with 2 nic's and one has internet connection sharing enabled?

androgyny7

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Thanks for getting back. By hard wired I mean there is a router in Building A that all PCs in Building A connect to. One port in the Router runs a cable to Building B. In Building B there is a LAN port. Currently one PC is hard wired to this connection and works fine, ie it can access the internet, see shared drives on the other PC etc.

All PCs on the wired network are set to "Optain an IP address automatically". When I connect the new PC to the LAN port in building B it is forever trying to aquire the network. However when I use a static IP address and gateway etc I can see the other PCs, but can't use the internet.

Why might this be? Thought it was just the wireless access point bu there must be something else - I am a programmer not a network man!! Can someone help?

baconyi

building B needs to have a switch in order for comptuers to be on/attain dhcp, not sure what you mean by 1 wire goes to building b to a lan port, lan port of what? another router? you'll have to make sure that wire from building a's router is a regular cable connecting to a switch....

if you have a router/switch connecting to a switch, some switches require a cross over-cable for the uplink, some are automatic

but then from there, building A connects to building B's switch, and building B's switch broadcasts the dhcp getting it from the orignal source (router), its like daisy chaining the switches/routers, but if you use a router in building B, then you have to set it to fucntion as a switch because it will be on a different network

androgyny7

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There is a CAT5 cable that goes from the Router in Building A to Building B. In building B there is a LAN port - into which a CAT5 cable can be connected.

So the Wireless Access Point I have will not do the job?

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mikebernhardt

And, is the static IP and gateway you put into your test PC on the same LAN as the PCs in the other building? One one of those, go to a DOS prompt and type ipconfig and see if the default gateway and subnet mask is the same.

androgyny7

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Tis OK everyone - managed to get it up and running.

The WG302 was perfect. Was only the fact that my DNS wasn't correct.