Using two routers - Page 2

Bigmuz7 · 20 December 2007, 20:43

Switches, hubs, routers, DHCP configurements...address conflicts ... blah blah... keep it simple is the best rule like I said, to eliminate conflicts Frothy Top

frothy top · 21 December 2007, 00:37

I remeber seeing an epsiode of the real hustle where he had his laptop some where with Wifi, he was then able to put out wifi from his laptop with a new name using the Wifi already in the building.
Sorry its not worded very well.

I also have a laptop which im replacing soon, so would it be possible to have the laptop wired to the router and give out a wireless signal from the laptop.

The built in wireless card is a "Dell wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card"

Thanks

perk · 21 December 2007, 08:29

@ Frothy

I'll pass on this. We do not set up networks this way, we use routers, switches etc...

Patrick

MikeCC · 21 December 2007, 15:17

. . . one in the left hand, one in the right. Might be tricky keeping a straight cut though.

Sorry, someone had to.

frothy top · 21 December 2007, 20:15

Problem solved sort of. I found out how to put out wifi from the laptop, but for some reason my archos can't find the wireless but it will have to do.

Thanks all for the help

Bigmuz7 · 29 December 2007, 00:25

Heres a page for you guys to check out

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/reviews/networking/

Wireless extenders for one reason.. but.. using your ring main in the house for sharing your wireless network is the other

Sound scary.. but its a good solution.. Devolo are 'the boys' for it

codprawn · 29 December 2007, 00:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bigmuz7

Heres a page for you guys to check out

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/reviews/networking/

Wireless extenders for one reason.. but.. using your ring main in the house for sharing your wireless network is the other

Sound scary.. but its a good solution.. Devolo are 'the boys' for it

Yes I have used these quite a lot. Hardest job was in a massive old mansion with walls literally 6' thick. Not allowed wires anywhere as it was Grade 1 listed. To make matters worse it was 3 phase electrics and they had 6 fuse boxes/distribution boards!!! Ended up using a mixture of wireless through the floors and Devolos between phases. Didn't help that 3 out of 10 Devolos were faulty - grrr!!!

Bigmuz7 · 29 December 2007, 10:04

Yea .. it has to be said, the Devolo stuff only works easily/properly where you have a ring circuit. Old buildings dont always have such configurations that are so easily determined, and as you say, combinations of other hardware are sometimes required to complete the job