Wired Network with Wireless adaptor

can you give a bit more information about the setup

the wrt54g is running a dhcp server?
is the router configured as router, or as switch?

are the wireless and the wired network in the same range?

why not use the wrt54g as network bridge?

steven, good morning.

the wrt54g is running a dhcp server and i did mess with setting the router to a router from a gateway but i didn't really know those settings because i have never used them before.

i think they are in the same range, the gateway is 192.168.1.1 for both so i think they are conflicting. what should i set them too? the wired LAN is getting an ip from the wrt54g and the wireless belkin adapter is getting an ip from the wireless netgear router in the other room.

i have never used the wrt54g as a network bridge, what would that do?

if you are saying the belkin and the linksys are both at 192.168.1.1 for their base address, that is definitly the problem.  change the linksys to 192.168.1.2 and disable the dhcp server on the linksys, then it should pass through the network signal fine.

sorry, I meant the netgear, not the belkin on the previous comment.

Ok, so on the xps system change the LAN port to obtain automatically for ip and dns? then change the linksys to 192.168.2.1? how would i do that in the router setup? or is the 192.168.2.1 the gateway of the LAN ip on xps?

Let's first try an easy solution, and further down go to more complicated ones.
Windows gives each network connecting a value on how fast it is. And will always go for the one with the lowest value (fastest).
In your case, it will try to connect through the wired network, because it's the fastest one, and it thinks there should be a network connected because it gets a default gateway, dns servers, ... from the router.
So we need to trick windows into ignoring that network, or only using it as secondary.
To do this, go to you network connections
right click a connection > properties > internet protocol (tcp/ip) > advanced > uncheck automatic metric
give the wireless a metric of 1
the wired connection a value of 100
reboot, and test
if this doesn't work, read on


Depending on how good your technical knowledge is, you can try putting dd-wrt on the linksys.
That will give it an option to create a wireless bridge.
This basically means that the wireless will pick up the signal form your first router, and relay it to the network ports.
So you would have a 4 port switch that is connected to the first one, as if it was connected with a cable.

But this is only if you're willing to mess around a bit with the routers config


an easier solution:
Leave the netgear as it is.
Log onto the linksys
in internet setup, choose for static ip
give it the ip 192.168.1.1
subnet 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
dns1 & dns2 192.168.1.1
change the dhcp ip-range to 192.168.2.x
save


I hope one of these does the trick :)

yes, you would do that in the router setup and 192.168.2.1 does become the gateway for the LAN connector on the XPS automatically by dhcp from the linksys when you plug it in.  but it will take a reboot or ipconfig /renew to get the xps to use the new ip network range after changing those settings.