Re: Wireless Card for E510

Here is what I **** THINK **** would work to use a second router as a bridge.
It's really fairly simple. Connect up the second router to an Ethernet port in
the first router. Now connect a computer to the second router, and access the
router setup screens. First, allow the second router to serve DHCP in a
DIFFERENT subnet than the first router. Next, assign a FIXED IP address to the
second router.

For example, say that the first router serves 192.168.0.nn from its own address
of 192.168.0.1 . So, set up the second router with fixed address 192.168.0.2 ,
and have to responsible for the subnet 192.168.1.nn . Give it a try.

This seems to be more or less what a neighbor do-it-yourselfer has done
unwittingly with his own network, and he wondered why a computer in one subnet
could not "see" computers in the other. I told him to DISABLE DHCP in the
second router and to give it a fixed IP in the same subnet as the first router,
i.e. the one connected to the broadband ISP. I have not had direct hands-on
with his home network. Yet. He brings his sick and dead computers over for
service and calls for advice... Ben Myers

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:23:42 -0600, Boris <Boris> wrote:

wm_walsh@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote in news:37e10496-b95a-4d91-aa28-b14b69e8c393
@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

Hi!

I would make the suggestion of investing in a router that can perform
as a wireless node. This way, you can plug your desktop's wired
Ethernet port into the router, configure it appropriately (many refer
to this function as "client bridged" mode) and be off and running.

While this does take up more space than a wireless card, and it will
require power, I have found that the functionality is much better. In
particular, the link is up whenever the computer is on...whereas most
desktop wireless cards only link up after a user has logged on.

The cost is about the same for either a wireless card or a suitable
router.

William

I do have a second, unused, D-link 524 wireless router. I've looked at
the 97 page owner's manual to see if it can be used as a bridge, but
there's no mention, and I don't see anything in the set up pages.
.

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