Problems adding Wireless Repeater

[MaintenanceMadeEasy]

I was wondering if someone could help me with resolving a network problem on my Home / home office network. I am trying to add a repeater(ie range extender), and can't get it to see the internet. I can find individual components on my internal network by logging onto the repeater and using IP address, but nothing outside of it. I can only see the internet by logging onto my wireless router directly. I will be the first to admit that my expertise is in programming, not networking, so I am not entirely sure if I have set everything up correctly. Below is my setup:

- Internet provided by Time Warner and a Cablemodem
- The office is on a domain with DNS provided by a Windows 2003 Server at 192.168.1.25)
- A netgear FSV318 router(192.168.1.2) is connected to the Cable Modem
- The office domain connects Via the netgear router
- A linksys router WRT150N (192.168.1.2) is connected to the Netgear to provide wireless to the rest of the house.

I am trying to connect a Hawking HWREN1 Repeater to the Linksys Wireless, but with out success. It finds the router but fails to connect. I can only connect to internal items using their ip address.


I don't want to assign Static IPs to the wireless as that creates problems when my wife takes her laptop to school.

I am using 192.168.1.2 (the netgear) as the Gateway, but I am not sure this is right.
Am I correct in using the netgear as a DNS? My concern is that it may conflict with the DNS at x.x.x.25. Wireless will not connect if this is turned off.

My Thanks for you help

 

[jeter]

By looking at the documentation on this it would appear that the extender plugs into the linksys and it's boosting the signal.

With that said I would have the linksys provide all the ip and dns information. I am not clear on the wizard setup from the CD provided. Did you run it?

I will look into it further , the docs are not easy to locate.


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[jeter]

http://www.hawkingtech.com/support/details.php?CatID=32&FamID=105&ProdID=394

This is the Tech Support page on the extender.

Download the manual...

Page 49 has very useful information, regarding ip and dhcp from the extender...


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[MaintenanceMadeEasy]

I screw around with this over the weekend and I Have it working now. I am not exactly what I did, but I had to play with the settings found in the routers "Web Screens". FYI the manual and setup CD were no help for my situation. I think the final step that got it working was adding my domains DNS IP. Any way, it is working now and we are not touching it.

 

[jeter]

Make sure to get screen shots of the config, if it goes down and you have to fix it you'll be in the same boat.

I think the issue was in the network ip,gw,subnet, and dns field as well...


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