engenius fixed wireless point to point

GrainneArd

folks struggling with a problem. power over ethernet between two buildings. the primary end is connected to a cross-connect panel via a powered ethernet connector that provides internet over the wireless link. on the other end is a another powered ethernet gizmo that powers the ariel. So I have taken the other end of this adaptor and plugged it into a normal wireless router. Get no internet. So I connect it into a a powered usb switch box and take a standard ethernet cable out of it into my wifi router. So internet light comes on but no internet. Note I do use DHCP on far end router as I expect the primary router to supply IP addresses to all my secondary devices on my secondary router. Am I missing something?

srsly78

Your description is quite vague. Diagnose issue by pinging each section of the network. Forget about internet, make sure local network is functional first. If you don't know what "ping" means then get someone technical to assist.

DHCP is disabled on your "secondary" router right?

Test if connected devices can ping both router A and router B.

GrainneArd

srsly78 wrote: »

Your description is quite vague. Diagnose issue by pinging each section of the network. Forget about internet, make sure local network is functional first. If you don't know what "ping" means then get someone technical to assist.

DHCP is disabled on your "secondary" router right?

Test if connected devices can ping both router A and router B.

Yes DHCP is disabled. I want the primary router providing the IP addresses. My concern is on the far end of the wireless link, I have a network cable coming from the ariel which goes into a POE injector adaptor. Connected to this adaptor is an external 5V supply and then you have a LAN out cable. Now when I feed
this directly into the router the internet won't come up. Here I am wondering is the external power supply connected to the adaptor affecting voltages on the Lan out cable that is connected to the WAN port of the router, hence the internet won't come up.

So then I instead I connect this LAN out cable to a 1 to 8 10/100M Trendnet switch box which has 4 POE LAN ports and 4 bog standard LAN ports. So the Lan out cable goes into one of the Poe ports on the switch box, and then a Lan cable is run from the normal LAN ports on the switch box to the WAN port on the router. So now the internet light looks happy in the router but no IPs assigned to any of the devices connected to the router. Note the switch is a switch box and does not provide the functionality to be able to provide IPs to devices connected to it. It just provides the ability for connected devices to be able to share data with each other. I'm just wondering if I need a gizmo like https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156502 put between the injector adaptor and the router. Would this allow the router to come up without the use of the switch box, which is of no use, as my devices aren't getting IPs

Hoagy

You seem to be trying to use the secondary router as an access point, which can be a pain to set up correctly.

I think you would be better off getting a proper access point such as one of these.

GrainneArd

Hoagy wrote: »

You seem to be trying to use the secondary router as an access point, which can be a pain to set up correctly.

I think you would be better off getting a proper access point such as one of these.

Yep, thats exactly what I am trying to do. It should be fairly straightforward I would have thought. On the LAN side its set to dynamic IP and DHCP is disabled. It wouldn't be that the LAN side it should be set to a static IP or PPTP instead?

Hoagy

GrainneArd wrote: »

Lan cable is run from the normal LAN ports on the switch box to the WAN port on the router.

That is wrong for a start.

Have a read of this

https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-turn-an-old-wi-fi-router-into-an-access-point/

GrainneArd

Guys, thanks a million. Just connected up a dedicated access point and everything came up running perfectly. Thanks for the advice