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Interfacing Multiple Wirless Networks

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by solid182, 2009/07/15.

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    solid182

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    In my house, my roommates and I have two wireless networks using two different internet connections. I own one and one of my roommates owns the other. What we want to do is setup network storage devices on each network but not be limited to connecting to the network that the storage device is on to access it. For example, someone is using my network connection because it has a stronger signal but they want to access the network storage device on the other network without leaving mine. Is it possible to get the two different networks to talk to each other like that? If so, how do you do it?
    My roommate feels that we should just use ftp servers but I don't want to use the internet to connect to something that is in my own house.
     
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    Didn't want you to think you were being ignored but I don't have an answer using conventional premise hardware.
     
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    This subject is a little out of my league also, but I see a physical device issue. Your notebook only has 1 wifi card, so I would be hard pressed to understand how it could possible link into and manage 2 wifi signals from 2 different routers. When attempting this via wired/ethernet, requires 2 NIC cards.
    But wait .... Windows 7 to the rescue ... just not ready for prime time .. yet.
    Microsoft's Virtual WiFi will make Windows 7 wireless adapters do a double-take
     
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    Probably the easiest thing to do would be to get a router that handles dual internet connections and put everything under the same subnet.

    But I have to ask, Why 2 internet connections?
     
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    You don't need an FTP server, it's real simple to do do what you want.
    NAS devices have a setting to allow or disallow access from the WAN.

    On each WLAN, setup each NAS with a static LAN IP address. Configure the NAS boxes for WAN access using a strong password. And set the port used by each NAS to something like 8090. (instead of port 80) Then via the router Web interfaces of each LAN, setup Port Forwarding so all requests to port 8090 get sent to the IP address of the attached NAS.

    PC 1 is on WLAN 1 and can connect to the NAS on WLAN 1 using the NAS LAN IP address or via My Network Places. No security needed to access files, but requiring credentials is reccommended.

    PC 1 can also connect to NAS on WLAN 2 using the WAN IP address of WLAN 2. In this setup, PC 1 connects to the NAS on the other WLAN via the Internet. After connecting once, this NAS should appear in My Network Places.

    The reverse holds true for PCs on the other LAN.

    You will need to know the WAN IP address of each network, which can be obtained via the router Web interfaces or via whatsmyip.org. You could even make a batch file or cmd file that grabs the WAN IP address and emails it to someone on the other network.
     
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