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Networking a new house

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by smockpuv, 2012/11/19.

  1. 2012/11/19
    smockpuv

    smockpuv Inactive Thread Starter

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    I just bought a house which has an ethernet port in each room. In my daughters closet is a box with all the ethernet cables. I had comcast cable installed and the modem was placed inside that box. I want to make it so each of my rooms is wired with internet. I tried to wire the house like this:

    The internet is wired to a hub along with every other room in the house, the hub is wired to the cable modem. In my game room from one of the ethernet ports I set up a wireless router. I thought that would work but I cannot get internet to broadcast to each ethernet port as well as over my wireless router. My neighbor said I needed to assign my hub, and router the same IP address as the cable modem. If anybody can shed some light as to the best way to provide internet access to the internet ports in each of my rooms as well as broadcast wirelessly. I cannot put the wireless router in the closet because the signal will not get much further than the closet.

    Thanks for your help.
     
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  2. 2012/11/19
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    This is what you need to do: (you'll need another router)

    1. turn off the cable modem (remove power cord).
    2. connect cable modem to a router (wired router) WAN/Internet port.
    3. connect cables in the box to the wired router.

    all ethernet ports around the house will now be hot.

    4. find out the IP address of the wired router (for example: 192.168.1.1)
    5. connect the wifi router to any computer using a wire.
    6. access the wifi router control panel via a browser and its IP address.
    7. if wired router is 192.168.1.1, change the wifi router IP address to 192.168.1.2
    8. change its gateway address to 192.168.1.1
    9. change it's DNS address to 192.168.1.1.
    10. disable the wifi router DHCP server.
    11. power off the wifi router.
    12. connect the wifi router to the ethernet port in game room using the wifi router port 1 (not the WAN/Internet port).
    13. power on the modem and let it sync with cable provider.
    13. power on wired router and let it sync with modem.
    15. power on wifi router.

    The wired router will handle all addressing for the entire wired and wifi network, the wifi router is functioning only as a wired switch and an access point, its routing/addressing is disabled.
     
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    smockpuv

    smockpuv Inactive Thread Starter

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    Great finally an answer to this problem. This might not be appropriate for this forum but I have two routers. one is a netgear wireless g - wgr614v10, the other one I just bought is a netgear n600 dual band router. I don't quite understand how to set up the dual band to be effective and not just redundant. Any help with that?

    Thank you by the way for the previous answer.
     
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  5. 2012/11/20
    TonyT

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    Use the wgr614 next to the modem, you can can keep the wifi on if desired in case someone nearby wants to use it's wifi, e.g. smart phones, laptops, etc.

    Use the n600 in the game room. You'll have 80211n which will give a broader range of connectivity. You won't get 80211n throughput on the entire LAN, only from the device/comp to the n600. You'll get 80211g throughput on the LAN, i.e. file sharing, etc.

    Be sure to configure both routers to use different SSIDs. You'll have 2 working wlans. You can use the same password/passkey for both wlans to keep it simple.

    Set the wifi channels to 1 and 11 in order to have the least amount of overlapping signals.

    Be sure to let us know how the setup goes...
     
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    smockpuv

    smockpuv Inactive Thread Starter

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    So I was playing with this trying to set it up last night. I apologize for my lack of understanding but I'm just not as familiar with networking as I'd like to be. I tried to set up the network but something failed. I think my problem is in assigning each router an IP address and more in changing the DNS and gateway address. From what I understand when I use CMD and type IPCONFIG/ALL the default gateway is the IP address of the router? If that is true my wired router is 192.168.1.1. So in setting up my wireless router there are two different locations I found where I could potentially change the IP address. One in basic settings, the other in LAN settings. In basic settings the option is to use default IP address and DNS addresses or use static IP, Subnet, Gateway, and DNS. In LAN I can assign a new IP address and subnet mask. but not gateway and DNS. So I'm not sure how to change the wireless IP address to 192.168.1.2 and my gateway and DNS to 192.168.1.1 like you mentioned.
     
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  7. 2012/11/20
    TonyT

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    DON'T change any network settings on any computer.

    To change the info for a router you must enter its IP into the address bar of a Web browser. For example, to access the control panel of the wired router, click here:
    http://192.168.1.1

    Then you will have to login. The default login for Netgear routers is:
    Username = admin
    Password = password
    see: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1148/~/default-password-for-netgear-devices

    Note, when changing info in the Netgear n600, connect a computer to one of is ports by wire. The router must not be connected to port in the wall yet.
     
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  8. 2012/11/21
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    Sorry Tony I wasn't very specific. I know how to log onto the router settings page. I'm just not sure where to change the IP address, DNS, and default gateway like you said. There is a section called LAN setup, and a section called wireless setup. The wireless setup section allows me to select use default addresses, or I can enter static addresses. The LAN will allow me to change just the IP address and the subnet mask. Often times when I change this information it will not let me back onto the router setup page by typing in its new IP address. So my confusion is more in where or which sections to modify the things you stated in your first post to me.
     
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  9. 2012/11/21
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    Change it on the LAN setup section > LAN TCP/IP Setup
    Subnet = 255.255.255.0
     
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