Home networking

Davok64

Hi Guru's,

Here is my problem, I have a broadband phone line coming into the house connected to a wireless modem. I have the phone line extended to a home office which is outside the house and I have another wireless modem connected to that. Problem is that when the wireless modem is on in the house, the modem in the office can't get a DSL signal.

Can I configure the modem's in such a way that both will work at the same time?

I should say that the house modem is a Netgear and the home office modem is a Netopia. I have another netopia that I could use to replace the Netgear one if that would help.

Hope I explained that clearly enough

Any advice gratefully accepted

aidan_walsh

Both modems are connected to the phone line? That won't work, only one modem can be connected to a line. What you might need to do is bridge the two routers so that the one connected to the phone line will be the primary source and the other will act as a repeater extending the area covered by the first.

Davok64

Hi Aidan,

Thanks for the quick response. As I'm in no way an expert on this topic, could you please give me some more detail on how "bridge" the two routers? Is it just a matter of connecting them together with an ethernet cable?


Thanks

David

aidan_walsh

No, its a term used to describe how two wireless devices can work together to extend the range of a wireless network. Exactly how it is done, or even if it can be done, depends entirely on the devices being used, whether they support it as an option and how the manufacturer chose to implement the option.

longdub

Davok64 wrote: »

Hi Guru's,

Here is my problem, I have a broadband phone line coming into the house connected to a wireless modem. I have the phone line extended to a home office which is outside the house and I have another wireless modem connected to that. Problem is that when the wireless modem is on in the house, the modem in the office can't get a DSL signal.

Can I configure the modem's in such a way that both will work at the same time?

I should say that the house modem is a Netgear and the home office modem is a Netopia. I have another netopia that I could use to replace the Netgear one if that would help.

Hope I explained that clearly enough

Any advice gratefully accepted

you can disconnect your office modem,and run an cat5 cable from your home wireless modem's lan port to you office,and plug it into your office computer's lan port.
or if it's difficult for u to run the cable,just get a usb wireless adapter for your office copmuter and connect it though the wireless network.

daftdave

longdub wrote: »

you can disconnect your office modem,and run an cat5 cable from your home wireless modem's lan port to you office,and plug it into your office computer's lan port.
or if it's difficult for u to run the cable,just get a usb wireless adapter for your office copmuter and connect it though the wireless network.

longdub would be talking about something like this,

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Wireless-USB-Adapter-WiFi-Internet-Network-Dongle-Vista_W0QQitemZ180301787582QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180301787582&_trkparms=72%3A1301|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1308&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

which would be a lot easier than running a cable through the house, just make sure that you can pick up the wireless signal from where you will be working, borrow a laptop and bring it to the work area and try pick up your wireless router's signal before you go buying a wireless adapter,

best of luck.