Connecting 2 BEFW11S4's

[bacardidude]

I would like to do the following somehow.

Connecting a 2 lans, one downstairs and one upstairs using befw11s4's to go wireless through the house and then all computers will be hard-wired to the access points.

Downstairs, the ap is connected to a cabled modem and hard-wired to one pc which functions fine out on the internet etc.

Upstairs, i have another ap, same model, and one or more computers that i would like to hard-wire.

The downstairs ap is 192.168.1.1(DHCP on)
Upstairs ap is 192.168.2.1(DHCP off)
Upstairs WAN is 192.168.1.2

both are on the same channels and are using the same SSID. No WEP is enabled yet. I can tell they are sendind and receiving data wtih each other, but can't do any pings etc.

Where am I going wrong?

Bacardidude

 

[bcastner]

Do you have a cross-over Cat-5 cable running from router #1 to router #2 from one LAN port to another LAN port?

(You cannot do a wireless bridge with these devices, you need a cable).

. disable DHCP on the upstairs router
. the WAN port is not used in router #2
. set the device IP to 192.168.1.2

No other settings matter.

 

[bacardidude]

I do not have a crossover cable going from router #1 to #2. So that would be my problem. I was trying to prevent having to run such a cable since I have two ap's.

Do I need to buy a bridge or how would you suggest I go about this configuration without running a crossover cable?

Bacardidude

 

[bcastner]

You get purchase a WET11, and use that to connect router #2. It too would connect to a LAN and not WAN port.

 

[CSSTeckie]

it's easy to set up the 2 wireless together, you have to run the cable modem to the first router and have the DHCP active.
the second router will need a loop back so that you can have all the computer networked together. I am using 3 routers at my place and it works perfectly.

 

[bcastner]

CSSTeckie,

"I do not have a crossover cable going from router #1 to #2. So that would be my problem. I was trying to prevent having to run such a cable since I have two ap's."

If you have a way of using WDS in the alternative, I would very much appreciate your help.

 

[bacardidude]

CSSTeckie,

I wasn't aware it was possible. I was really close to buying a bridge to get it done.

I have the 1st router plugged into the cable modem and dhcp is active.

The 2nd router(at one point) got an ip from the main router, but I was lost as to whether to give it a WAN Ip also. I also tried to configure static routing to point toward the main router to get out to the internet. It hasnt working so far.

Please give more detail as to how to make it work. Configuration settings, etc.



Bacardidude