bob4432
join:2005-02-20
Paradise Valley, AZ
| [Wireless] WRT54G as Access Point?
can the wrt54g be used as an access point only? if so, can somebody give me the directions as the manual from linksys doesn't go into it.
here will be my setup (hopefully) -
router - linksys befsr41
ap - wrt54g
machines -
main rig
backup server for home uses
wife's laptop with wifi g
i am having some latency issues on my wired machines and hope this may fix it as i have tried everything else, and happen to have this befsr41 laying around. the laptops latency is not an issue because nothing is done on it where latency matter, where my main rig i game on and latency is key.
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Lanik
Lab-nik
Premium,ExMod 2002-03
join:2001-06-25
Bay Area
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| »192.168.1.1 (if you didn't change the password its "admin" (no quotes))
Setup > Advanced Routing > change operating mode to Router.
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bob4432
join:2005-02-20
Paradise Valley, AZ | sounds good. do i use any particular port on the back? like the one that is labeled ethernet that my modem is currently in? |
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twokatmew
join:2001-02-03
Lansing, MI
| reply to bob4432
I had this same setup for a while, before I recently upgraded my BEFSR41 to another WRT54G. All you have to do is leave your BEFSR41 as it is. The connect one of its LAN ports to a LAN port on the WRT54G. (You'll need to change the IP address of the WRT54G though.) I have mine as follows:
router = 192.168.1.1
WRT54G as AP = 192.168.1.2
If DHCP is turned on on the router, make sure you turn it off on the AP.
Hope this helps,
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bob4432
join:2005-02-20
Paradise Valley, AZ
edit:
January 30th, @10:08PM
| thanks, working like a charm, at least with ethernet, when the wife gets home i will check it out with the wifi. it guess it is now just basically a switch or hub...
the only thing i can't figure out is why there is a extra entry into my main routers dhcp list, which i don't know where it came from because it is not the ip of the wrt54g which i set to 192.168.1.2... |
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twokatmew
join:2001-02-03
Lansing, MI
| reply to bob4432
The WRT54G has three network interfaces, WAN, LAN, and wireless. So it has three MAC addresses. Now that you've disconnected its WAN interface, it will function solely as a switch and WAP.
Usually the DHCP server is pretty good about cleaning up after itself as devices are turned off. But I vaguely remember seeing something like this before. Have you tried a refresh of the DHCP client list on your BEFRS41? Is wireless access turned on on the WRT54G and not secured? If so, it's possible one of your neighbors has jumped onto your WLAN. (I ran into this the other day, when a client's wireless router died, and she had no idea, because her computer picked up the signal from a neighbor's WLAN. She called me wondering why she suddenly had a "funny" IP address, and that's how we figured it out.)
If the extra entry in your DHCP clients list doesn't go away with a refresh, you might want to track it down by the MAC address. The config pages for each router will tell you their various MAC addresses, and there's probably a sticker on the bottom of the device, too. With your computers, you can enter "ip config /all" at a command prompt and get this information for each network interface. You can also type "getmac" at a command prompt, and it will display the MAC address for the active network interface. (All this assumes you're running Windows....)
Hope this helps,
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Margaret
MCSE learning Linux!
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bob4432
join:2005-02-20
Paradise Valley, AZ | thanks, it cleaned itself out  |
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