Ok, I've never posted in a thread before, but I can't seem to figure out the best way to set up my house network.
I have a netgear cable modem/router which has the cable company's cable screwed in.
The house came with a US Tec Router which has wired connections all over the house homerun to it and it is in the same closet as the netgear modem.
I disabled the DHCP on the US tec router and plugged in to the LAN ports between the netgear and US tec (avoided the WAN port)
The ip addresses are 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.1 for the netgear and us tec routers.
Due to the location of the closet, the wireless on the netgear has poor range- I turned it off.
I have an AEBS 802.11n which is in the middle of the house. I connected it via a LAN port to a LAN port on the Netgear, hoping to replicate what I did with US Tec.
I went to Airport Utility/ Internet Connection and turned Connection sharing to Off (Bridge Mode). I also configured the IPv4 to manual and I set up the IP address to 192.168.1.3 (in hopes that everything wired/unwired in the house could see each other) . I also changed the router address to the same address. I left the subnet mask as is.
I can get on the internet from the AEBS, Netgear and US TEc connections.
While on a US Tec connection, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. However, I cannot ping the AEBS.
While I am on a wireless AEBS, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. I cannot ping 192.168.1.3 again.
Also, when I go to system preferences/ network/ it says that airport is connected to the AEBS and has the IP address 172.27.35.116
Finally, if I open a finder window while on AEBS, I cannot see computers plugged into US Tec or the netgear.
This really sucks, seems complicated and has made me respect guys who know what they are doing with this stuff.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and keep me out of further trouble with my wife
I have a netgear cable modem/router which has the cable company's cable screwed in.
The house came with a US Tec Router which has wired connections all over the house homerun to it and it is in the same closet as the netgear modem.
I disabled the DHCP on the US tec router and plugged in to the LAN ports between the netgear and US tec (avoided the WAN port)
The ip addresses are 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.1 for the netgear and us tec routers.
Due to the location of the closet, the wireless on the netgear has poor range- I turned it off.
I have an AEBS 802.11n which is in the middle of the house. I connected it via a LAN port to a LAN port on the Netgear, hoping to replicate what I did with US Tec.
I went to Airport Utility/ Internet Connection and turned Connection sharing to Off (Bridge Mode). I also configured the IPv4 to manual and I set up the IP address to 192.168.1.3 (in hopes that everything wired/unwired in the house could see each other) . I also changed the router address to the same address. I left the subnet mask as is.
I can get on the internet from the AEBS, Netgear and US TEc connections.
While on a US Tec connection, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. However, I cannot ping the AEBS.
While I am on a wireless AEBS, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. I cannot ping 192.168.1.3 again.
Also, when I go to system preferences/ network/ it says that airport is connected to the AEBS and has the IP address 172.27.35.116
Finally, if I open a finder window while on AEBS, I cannot see computers plugged into US Tec or the netgear.
This really sucks, seems complicated and has made me respect guys who know what they are doing with this stuff.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and keep me out of further trouble with my wife