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Networks Crazy Network Setup

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by Omnituens, 26 Jan 2012.

  1. Omnituens

    Omnituens What's a Dremel?

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    Howdy bit-tech! Time to put your brains in gear!

    I have just moved into a houseshare and we are all connecting wirelessly. That's cool, I have a wireless card built into my laptop. However, my PC does not.

    Now I don't mind picking up a wireless network card/adaptor for my rig, its just that it doesn't completely solve my problem.I use my laptop as my second monitor and stream movies/programs/whathavetyou while I'm gaming. This would be detrimental to the network as a whole.

    Ideally what I would like to have is my laptop and rig all wired to a router in my room, then have that router... route the internet data via wifi. I don't know if this is even possible, but it would be the best solution as then my streaming would not interfere with the other peoples wifi.

    Any suggestions? I have a Netgear 615v9 spare to flash with any firmware that might be required. Both machines are running Win7.
     
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  2. j0rd

    j0rd FLOSS folder

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    use an ethernet - wifi bradge
     
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  3. Zoon

    Zoon Hunting Wabbits since the 80s

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    Configure your Netgear 615 as a wireless bridge to the Wifi and connect your laptop and PC with wires.
     
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  4. Omnituens

    Omnituens What's a Dremel?

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    Cool, I'll give it a try. Google informs me I might need to reflash the firmware on this netgear to do that.
     
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  5. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    Just don't enable NAT on teh Netgear as you will also be using NAT on the internet router. Double NAT'ing will just cause problems.
     
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  6. Omnituens

    Omnituens What's a Dremel?

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    OK, first off I was totally wrong about what this router was, turns out it was a D-link after i unpacked it from storage lol.

    I flashed it with DD-WRT firmware and follow 2 guides - one to try and turn it into a repeater... which failed. Then I tried turning it into a client... which failed. I followed the guides to the letter, but the D-link is not receiving a WAN IP address.

    With some telnetting I have finally got admin access to the actual AP point. I'm fast running out of ideas, as networking is not my strongpoint.

    I have followed these guides:
    http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wlan_Repeater
    http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Mode

    PROBLEM SOLVED - the AP router was telling me it was using WPA encryption, after telnetting into it I discovered it was actually using WPA2. Done, all set up now!
     
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