Great, I was wondering why it was acting like a hub not a router.
Thanks for the help, a nice quick $30 fix!
Adair Witner wrote:
> Yout need a wireless router not a wireless access point. you can either go
> buy a wired router and plug the cable modem into the WAN port of it and the
> WAP into one of the LAN ports or just buy a wireless router altogether
> All the WAP is doing is bridging you to the cable modem which is supposed to
> only supply one IP address. A router will take the one address from the
> modem and using NAT (network address translation) allow many people to use
> the internet at the same time.
>
> Adair
>
>
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> > I'm at my relatives for the Holiday's and they were not able to get
> > their wireless setup. I've gone through the not-so-extensive setup CD
> > that comes with the access point to setup a PC. What happens however,
> > is once I am connected to the access point, it is acting as if I am
> > directly connected to the cable modem.
> >
> > My gateway is NOT 192.168.1.1 as I have set it up initially. The
> > gateway I am seeing is the one I have if I connect the cable modem
> > directly to the PC.
> >
> > I've renamed the network as I found there was another neighbor with the
> > same network name. I've tried enabling and not enabling WEP to see if
> > that would make a difference but as I expected it did not.
> >
> > I've reset the access point and am able to connect all the PCs in the
> > house, but only one at a time...
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this before? Any ideas on how I might fix this
> > one?
> >
> > Thanks in advance and happy holidays,
> > -Nate
> >
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