CaptNemo looks at computer Networking part 3
Gone Wireless!
Well I've shifted my whole network over to wireless now. My room-mate has a linksys wireless router set to the default network settings of 192.168.1.xxx which is connected to the internet.
Using the
software that came with the d-link usb/wireless device I was able
to determine the mac addres of this linksys router. I then
connected a linksys WAP11(wireless access point) to this mac
addres . I then ran the ethernet cable from the wap11 to the
internet port of my original linksys router.
It didn't work at first till I remembered that both sides of
the router were connected to 192.168.1.xxx so the router
didn't know where to route internet traffic to.
I switched my internal network to
192.168.10.xxx and, problem solved. Then to add further
complexity I ran the ethernet from my linksys router to another
linksys wireless point and set this up as a secure wireless
access point for my internal network by limiting access to it to
specific mac addresses. This seems to be working very well so far.
Course I still have my ethernet hubs and swithches so I can still
use cable for some things.
