My ever-expanding network!!

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1st one) hmmm, well what i was talking about was finding the place where you type in the IP address for the router, there should be a box for the IP address, the subnet mask, and the gateway. maybe the quick setup tab? idk, you irishmen use crazy foreign technology. 2nd one) umm whaddaya mean? lol. you dont setup the routers to talk to each other with static routing, if thats what yer thinkin In reply to:And obviously I've blocked all the numbers out, public forum and all. yeah yeah i understand. getting hacked wouldnt be much fun.

In reply to: 1st one) hmmm, well what i was talking about was finding the place where you type in the IP address for the router, there should be a box for the IP address, the subnet mask, and the gateway. But thats what the first picture shows. Its from the menu of the second router and it lets you enter an IP address, netmask and gateway. In reply to: you irishmen use crazy foreign technology. Its BT, thats crazy British technology. No wonder it isn't working...

So, like, did anything I said above make any sense?Does Bob know aboutDHCPEthernet switchesPPPoESSID?I don't even know if BT uses PPPoE.You can plug both routers into the DSL modem, or you can plug the first router into the DSL modem, and the second router into the first router. In either case, I would only enable the wireless part in the router that's going to be near the laptop...assuming it's only going to be used downstairs.

nonono thats static routing that you were lookin at. apparently i was sleeping when my networking teacher explained it....cuz i still have no idea exactly what purpose it serves. just know that its complicated, and doesnt apply to you . here, ill show you what mine looks like...http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m311/animefreak135/Screenshot-2.png In reply to: Its BT, thats crazy British technology. No wonder it isn't working... lol. of course!! BT....british technology. haha

uh yeah, what u said made sense. y u ask? youre right about the routers not being able to share channels/SSIDs. oh yeah bob, if ya wanna save yourself some hassle, you can do what SteveA said and buy a bunch of Cat5e(Ethernet) cable, and hook the two routers together, just from one port to the other. That would give you a nice signal boost, w/o having to worry about how far apart they are.(so long as they arent so far apart theres a huge gap inbetween em where theres no signa)l :P In reply to: Does Bob know aboutDHCPEthernet switchesPPPoESSID? sorry, i may have talked a bit too techno-ish. i do that sometimes. my bad.

ah sorry didnt see your post. no, his router would support doing this. i dont c y it wouldnt. ive done it with normal cat5e cable, works just fine. you still would need to do a bit of meddling around in the routers configuration, though.

Well the thing is, I'm trying to set my routers up at opposite ends of my house and I want it wireless.I've been fiddling around in the configuration menus and I found a section in the wireless menu that turns it into a Repeater. I did a scan and it found my original router, I made sure the channels were the same and I synced them. I don't know if this is gonna work until I get access to my laptop, but that sounds like it should do the job, right? The sad thing is, SDP talked about repeaters from the very start...

Sadly it didn't work. Instead of the second router becoming a repeater, it just set the first router as a repeater for itself.So, if anybody knows how I could reverse this process, that would be great! Edit: Ok, I've gone looking through the original router's config menu and I can't find anything to do with a repeater. Argh...

OK, I reset the new router. I go into the Quick Setup menu, it gives me this screen: Page 1 When I select either PPP over ATM (PPPoA) or PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) it brings me to this screen: Page 2 But when I select IP over ATM (IPoA) or Bridging it brings me to this page: Page 3a This then leads on to this page: Page 3b OK, now I know it may seem like I've been ignoring your advice but I haven't, its just that even if I put the original routers IP address as the gateway (which one should I put, 192.168... etc or its external IP address?) I still don't know what to put in for the other IP address and subnet mask.

Oh, sorry I made a mistake. When I go into Bridging I get this page: Page 4

Bob. Why don't you just hire someone to do it, save some time.

Because if I do it myself, then I learn. I make mistakes and fuck things up but I learn from my mistakes. Its how I learn everything. Whats the point in hiring somebody else to do it? It costs me money to get them to do it, then when it breaks down or if there is a problem some time in the future then I have to pay money to get them back.

Maybe this is way to simple, Im not a networking whiz, you need others for that, atleast on thisissue, but.. In reply to: Instead of the second router becoming a repeater, it just set the first router as a repeater for itself. so with that done cant you jsut swap the routers?make the new one the primary and the old one the repeater since you already know how to set it up that way ? or am I missing something or misunderstanding something ?like I said, maybe its just too simple to work, but it seems like a good idea to me unless hte new one is far inferior to the old?

Thats what I thought, but the two routers are completely different. The old one is a Netopia and the new one is a BT Voyager. The Voyager let me set up the Netopia as a repeater, but the Netopia doesn't let me do the same for the Voyager.

Am I still thinking too simple?you said :Voyager let me set up the Netopia as a repeater, but the Netopia doesn't let me do the same for the VoyagerSo why not just use the Voyager as the primary thats connected to the dls line and move the netopiaf to where you were going to put the voyager and let it be the repeater ?Maybe Im not understanding something your communicating ?

You're understanding everything fine, I just keep forgetting details. The only reason why I'm not doing that is cause I've lost my internet password. I've no idea what it is and without that I can't get the internet running through the Voyager.

Well fuck me ! is that the extent of your whole problem ??ready to kiss my ass bobbo?you said voyager, fim sure I recall earlier you state british technologyf, so Im going to assume that it is a BT Voyager 2000 Wireless ADSL Router, correct ?I found this on the help site for that router:If at any stage you find you cannot access the router, and you would like to reset it to factory defaults push a pin or something similar into the small hole in the back of the router and hold it down for a few seconds until all the lights on the router are on.So now by doing that you have the standard admin account and its factory set password back.it then goes on to say that :2. Administration: Here you can add users who are able to make changes to the configuration, the default user is admin and the password is admin. After you have added a new user you can delete admin if you so wish. The modify button allows you to change the password.so if you follow that shit above, you can change it so that the voyager can be configed to be the repeater yes ?by the by, I fucked up an closed the page I had opened and I honestly dont knwo where to find it, but I did find it by googleing the router name and BT and it kicked the help site for it right up. I found that trick when establishig my own network with fmy router after I had moved to a place I had no cable internet so went with out rather then useing dial up, when cable became available, I got it turned back on and couldnt remember what my old password had been.

Its a BT Voyager 2110.I already new the admin stuff, that only allows me access to the configuration of the router which as I said, doesn't allw me to set the voyager as the repeater. What I lost is the password that is sent to the Eircom servers (my internet provider) so my router can actually access the internet. My Netopia can access the internet no problem and I've had a look through it and the only info it gives me about this is my username for getting internet access, but not the password.The password that I'm looking for isn't set in the router, its on the Eircom servers.

So I wont be feeling the sensation of your warm lips pressed firmly against my tight buttocks anytime soon eh?it still seems simple enough, call the ISP, tell them ya want the fucker, they want verification of who you are, provide that or ask them to send it to the ISP provided email.It isnt that hard to recover lost passwords here in the US I cant imagine it is there.When my love was working for various ISP places around here more then half of her tech support calls were for recovering lost and forgotten passwords to user accounts.They will hate you for calling, but they will get you the missing password.

OK, I got the password and I've set up the new router for my internet. But now my original router can't get an internet connection through the new one, and for some reason my laptop won't connect to the new router.