Wireless Access Points

[mikeyg76]

Okay everyone This is my questions.

I have a DLink 624 wireless router up in my house, i ran cat5e cable from my router down to my shop and have a wired connection down there, i was wondering if i could just hook up a wireless access point to the wired connection if it would allow me to have wireless down there. Thanks in advance!

 

[JRock]

Yes. You can "daisy chain" the devices but it COULD cause some issues later on if you are trying to share files accross the wired network to the wireless network. If that becomes and issue you know where to find us

 

[mikeyg76]

sweet thanks! . now is this just going to be a "plug and play" or am i going to have to mess with the settings? and if so what IP should i set the WAP. Thanks

 

[JRock]

The WAP should just pull a DHCP address from your current router. Shouldn'y require much manual intervention if any...

 

[mikeyg76]

Thank you VERY much!

 

[JRock]

n/p

 

[ktwebb]

An AP is just a wireless hub. It may very well pickup an IP however you don't need it to move data across it. IP would only be for configuration changes. I'd suggest using a wired computer to assign a static IP on the same subnet as your current LAN, out of the DHCP scope. Then you can just access the GUI via it's IP. And yeah, what your describing is what AP's are for. Never say never but there won't be any problems in terms of hops etc....

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: ktwebb
An AP is just a wireless hub. It may very well pickup an IP however you don't need it to move data across it. IP would only be for configuration changes. I'd suggest using a wired computer to assign a static IP on the same subnet as your current LAN, out of the DHCP scope. Then you can just access the GUI via it's IP. And yeah, what your describing is what AP's are for. Never say never but there won't be any problems in terms of hops etc....

I think you're ok up to 3 hops, after that, things may not work. Could be wrong though.

 

[ktwebb]

Not really. Well it depends on what the hop is. For this scenario, there is no problem.