Accessing the internet via wireless devices

I have a Linksys WAG354G wireless router situated upstairs that all my
wifi devices use to connect to the internet and each other.

Assume I have just bought a none wifi enabled PC for downstairs,
situated well away from my Linksys. As it happens I have 2 spare
wireless routers kicking around, one of which is a Netgear WG834GT.

My question is, can I connect none wifi PC to the netgear router via
ethernet and then have the netgear act as a wireless access point and
communicate with the linksys upstairs? ie, I don’t want to have an
ethernet cable going from downstairs to upstairs and I don’t want to
buy a wireless adaptor (for this example).

I’ve just tried doing the above, I log into the netgear, turn off DHCP
and assign it an IP within the range of the linksys router. But  what
settings do I put for subnet mask, wireless SSID, security etc? do I
simply match the settings on the Linksys?

Or is what I want to do even possible?

Hi, im trying to connect to my LAN to get to internet. I keep getting
an error message( no TCP/IP connection, or something like that) Whats
wrong??  I also have my notebook connected to the same network and
there i dont have any problems at all……Have i screwed up
somewhere ??

Thanks!

Even though WinXP Wireless connection box says I’m connected when  I open IE
or FireFox browsers I get "page cannot be found". My hardware is a Dell
Inspiron 8600 laptop with a PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 mini PCI card and  Linksys
WRT600N router. All drivers for my laptop have been updated. After spending
an hour with Linksys tech support I am still unable to connect wirelessly,
but my wired cable connection works fine. Any suggestions would be great
because I am really fed up with this $200 WiFi router purchase which for 2
days now has not worked. Below are 2 IPconfig results, wired and wireless.

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These is my IPconfig /all result when I’m wired to the Linksys router:

Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Eli

        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :

        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

        Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
3A Mini PCI Adapter

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-F1-15-E3-7E

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated
Controller

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-56-EC-C7-98

        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 167.206.254.2

                                            167.206.254.1

                                            192.168.1.1

        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, March 21, 2008 3:30:44
PM

        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:30:44
PM

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This is my IPconfig /all results when I’m attempting my wireless connection:

Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Eli

        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :

        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless LAN 2100
3A Mini PCI Adapter

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-F1-15-E3-7E

        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 68.194.64.1

        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 167.206.254.2

                                          167.206.254.1

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated
Controller

        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-56-EC-C7-98

Hi All,

    I am trying to connect a computer with an Ethernet port
and no spare PCI slots to a small WPA2 protected wireless
network.

    Does anyone have recommendation for a wireless bridge
that supports WPA2?

    I had been using USR products, but had to stop using
any of their products do to a hardware design defect
in their eeproms circuits that kept them from saving changes.

    I also looked at the Linksys WET54G but no
WPA2 (only wpa1).

    I found a ZyXel G-570S but have no experience with
their reliability.

    Anyway, I thought it was time to ask for help.

Many thanks,
-T

Hi,

As I recently posted, one of my main wireless routers (DI-764 802.11a/b)
finally died completetly after six years of use.  The 802.11a radio had died
a few months back, but by then I was only using the router portion of the
DI-764 as I had a WAP (DWL-7100AP 802.11a/gb) attached to it.

I’ve since ordered a wired router to replace the old DI-764 (waiting on it
to arrive from Newegg), but thought I would play around with the old DI-764
and see if I could actually fix the thing.  Upon opening it up, I noticed
that one cap had completely bursted while another one was buldging.  First
trip to a Radio Shack proved fruitless as that particular store (at a mall)
no longer sold components.  The sales clerk didn’t even know what a
capacitor was.  She kept asking me if it was some sort of interconnect!

Anyway, today while lunch at work, I went to a regular Radio Shack and got
new caps.  I then soldered the new caps onto the mainboard and the DI-764,
to me disbelief, was fully operational again!

Once I got home, I decided to look into another D-Link WAP that I have since
it has just started acting a little flakey.  Sure enough, one of the caps
inside it is starting to buldge.  This particular WAP has only been running
for a little over a year.

Ok, I guess I shouldn’t really complain about six years of 24/7 operation,
but should they be crapping out after only a year?  Is D-Link saving a few
pennies by using poor quality caps?

   I was trying to set-up Airport Express to work with my iTunes as a
client through my main base station (an Airport Extreme). I can no
longer find the express and the express is flashing amber. Aybody know
how I might get the express to show up again and go green?

What should I do? Both my wireless bridges show 0 BER, I
get 54 MBit connections pretty much all the time, response
time is indistinguishable from wire connect 100BaseTX.

–
Les Cargill

I’ve been using a ZyXel P-330W for ?: a couple of years or so.
I recently got a freebie Linksys BEFW11S4 that I plan to use in our second
home this Summer.
I tried comparing the specs and didn’t see any difference, but I don’t
understand  the real geeky stuff.
Is there any real difference between these two routers?

I was using my laptop to review my DSL modem stats
by hooking up a small hub on the WAN connection
between the DSL modem and my router.
(disable Wifi & enable Ethernet)
The DSL modem lives at 10.0.0.1,
so I setup my static IP info on the Ethernet connection for that – all works
fine

BUT – I was thinking –
would there be a way to have both the Ethernet @ 10.0.0.xx
and the WiFi @ 192.168.1.xx active at the same time…
Running XP/SP2

If I use the browser…. how would it know which interface to use
for an entered IP address or to be resolved DNS name ?