Hi - forgive me, please, if I use hopelessly incorrect terminology in the following series of questions....
In one building there exist two or three LANS, all, at present, wired.
One of them has a fast DSL connection to the Internet. What I'd like to do is make that a broadcast (?) point for WiFi, so that people coming into the area can connect to the Net with their laptops. (This is OK with the ISP.)
Unfortunately, because of weird conflicts between routers and the DSL modem, that LAN uses a Windows Box (running Windows 2000, I think) to serve the Internet for the rest of the computer on the LAN, including two older Macs.
It may be that the router is too new for the DSL modem, try an old hub in between the two.
I'd also like to add another LAN to this - LAN 2, let's call it - linking to the Internet via wireless. I don't merely want to connect one computer to it, like others will do. I want to connect the whole LAN, which includes about four or five computers (in the future: more) and a nice postscript laserprinter.
A bridge device such as the Linksys Wet11 or Wet 54G will allow you to bridge the two lan's by uplinking from the bridge to the switch or hub. There are pure bridge devices, but the advantage this way is the wireless router will still allow WiFi clients, with the Wet11 acting as a bridged client.
So my question is, how can this be done?
I'd like simply to plug something into my uplink port on my existing Ethernet hub in LAN 2. Is that possible?
Yes, as described above.
In LAN 1, the ISP's technical incompetence may force us to continue to use a PC as a server - though I could switch it to a Linux box, for easier remote control from my office in LAN 2.
Check compatibility between the DSL modem and the router you wish to use. You might have to adjust the MTU as well depending on your ISP.
James
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