Advice Needed on Setting up a Home Wired/Wireless Network

Redisle

Hi,

Im thinking of setting up a home network for the purposes of sharing Internet access(dial up for now) and sharing files and maybe a printer.Im considering Buying a Linksys WRT54G Combined Router/AP/4p Switch for my network. Ive layed out my proposed setup in paint and it is posted as
an attachment.Please review it(you will have to zoom to exactly 100% to read it)and let me know what you think.(There is more information in writing in the attachment)
Please look and advise,

Thanks for any help,
Regards,
ab

Foxwood

ab_cork wrote:

Hi,

Im thinking of setting up a home network for the purposes of sharing Internet access(dial up for now) and sharing files and maybe a printer.Im considering Buying a Linksys WRT54G Combined Router/AP/4p Switch for my network. Ive layed out my proposed setup in paint and it is posted as
an attachment.Please review it(you will have to zoom to exactly 100% to read it)and let me know what you think.(There is more information in writing in the attachment)
Please look and advise,

There's othing obviousy wrong with the setup (though I've never used ICS, so I couldn't say whether there will be any issues on that front). basically, you'll just be using the Linksys as a wireless access point, for now (plugging the ICS PC into a LAN port, not the WAN port), which should work fine.

Redisle

Foxwood wrote:

There's othing obviousy wrong with the setup (though I've never used ICS, so I couldn't say whether there will be any issues on that front). basically, you'll just be using the Linksys as a wireless access point, for now (plugging the ICS PC into a LAN port, not the WAN port), which should work fine.

Ya thats what I was thinking too. Just Use it as a comined switch/ap for now and ignore the wan port but will this device function okay without a broadband conncection being plugged into the wan port?

irlrobins

Looks ok to me too. Can't see any probs with it. In case DHCP doesn't work via ICS PC, just use static ip addresses.

Nice research.

Foxwood

ab_cork wrote:

will this device function okay without a broadband conncection being plugged into the wan port?

Yes.

Redisle

irlrobins wrote:

Nice research.

Thanks,

NutJob

if the linksys supports dhcp passthrogh ICS will happily dish out ips

would need to google it though


Wait a sec ICS + a wireless router ??????

Redisle

NutJob wrote:

Wait a sec ICS + a wireless router ??????

Ya its possible allright, Ill be using the wireless router as an access point. It would be the same if I had a seperate wired router and wifi access point hooked together. Ill be ignoring the actual router functionality of it for the moment

NutJob

Sorry its just a weird setup thats all.

Foxwood

NutJob wrote:

Sorry its just a weird setup thats all.

Only if you consider sharing a dialup connection over a wireless network weird.

Oh yeah, I see your point

bibibobo

ab_cork wrote:

Hi,

Im thinking of setting up a home network for the purposes of sharing Internet access(dial up for now) and sharing files and maybe a printer.Im considering Buying a Linksys WRT54G Combined Router/AP/4p Switch for my network. Ive layed out my proposed setup in paint and it is posted as
an attachment.Please review it(you will have to zoom to exactly 100% to read it)and let me know what you think.(There is more information in writing in the attachment)
Please look and advise,

Thanks for any help,
Regards,
ab

I used a linksys WRT54GS for sharing files around a home wired & wireless network. I never got internet connection sharing to work with dial up though. Can't remember exactly what the issue was but enabling internet connection sharing conflicted with the linksys ... something to do with default gateways etc. Anyway I eventually got broadband and threw the dial up out . Have a look here for my setup now.

NutJob

just disable the dhcp server on the ICS machine or on the linksys(not both)


job done but you may need dhcp passthrough (doubt it though)