Very Difficult wireless question

[Kaiynne]

I have been searching for info on this for a while and have found nothing.

here is the situation, i have a DI-614+ wireless router, i want to be able to connect to another wireless router across the street and share the connection via the built in 4 port switch.

obvious problems are that the WAN interface seems to not be connected to the access point. Thus while i can set up the access points IP (which is simply the lan address) i can not use DHCP to share out ip address through the switch, as it would conflict with the other router. This is not a big deal as i can set static ips on all of my computers. The problem is that i have no idea whether the access point has made a connection to the remote router through the wireless connection. There is no interface such as would be seen with a wireless card where you can view available wireless networks. And there is no indication of signal strength or any of the things you would look for to tell whether the connection is working well or poorly. So i could set up a client card to test the connection, but i am planning on installing a high gain antenna onto the router so a client card would give me a clear indication of whether it is working well or poorly.

Does anyone have any ideas of use a configuration that is similiar to this.
Ideally i would like to isolate my network from his, like you would if you were to set up to routers and uplink the first router into the wan port of the second router so as to have the two networks on different subnets.

Any info would be great.

Thanks

 

[skyking]

you are proposing using a WAP as a network bridge. Depending on the model, that may work. You will either have to assign IP's or let the router with the net connection assign them via DHCP. You must turn off DHCP on the bridge, and you will also have to use the same range of IP's that his router is handing out.
Once you set one of those units in bridge mode, you will typically lose the ability to access it via an IP. It is now just a glorified switch. That is why it is preferable to use one that has a USB cable interface, or even a serial interface, allthough those are getting hard to find.
With that in mind, you are out of luck regarding signal strength, available networks etc. You need to set up WEP, channel, etc prior to disabling DHCP. Any configuration changes may require a reset to factory defaults, then a reconfigure from the ground up.
Seperating the networks will be just about impossible, since you can have only the one gateway. I suggest that you employ zonealarm pro, or some other firewall utility, and give permission to only the IP's on your segment. His computers will be able to see yours, and vice versa, but not be able to browse them, if you set it up correctly. You can still have functional shares at either house, though.

 

[JackMDS]

Two Entry Levle Wireless Cable/DSl Router will not talk one to the other.

I never tried it, but could be that a Wireless Client like the Linksys WET11 can be connected to the WAN side of a router and feed the signal. The WET11 is driverless. You need a Router that can be configured with a private IP (192.168.x.x) on the WAN side.

More about connection modes here: Link: Wireless Network - Configuration Modes.

 

[Kaiynne]

Thanks for the info, some more research will be done on my part. I think i just need to go and buy an AP, but i just love doing things the hard way (read the cheap way).

thanks again

 

[JackMDS]

Be aware that you need an Access Point that can configure as a Client.

Otherwise you would need two Access Point.