Re: wireless access point - WNR2000 router

"sid" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all
> Not posted here before but there seems to be some life in this newsgroup.
> We have an internal wired network that DOESN'T use DHCP. All the client
> windoze machines have their IPs set uniquely & their gateway & DNS
> settings
> pointing at a proxy server that gives internet access. I need to add
> wireless capability to this network. So the access point has to be able to
> have a hardwired IP, gateway & DNS setting on it's wired side in the same
> way as all the existing clients and ideally it will have its own DHCP
> server
> on its wireless side. Is this possible, is there a name for this
> particular
> function & if so are there any recommendations for a box that will do
> such.
> The boss has already wasted money on a wnr2000 Netgear router that,
> presumably because it's a router doesn't seem to do the trick - once you
> set
> its IP address for the internal network it just seems to disappear. I've
> tried googling for W access point comparisons but the only info that
> features in the results is speed, good looks & not obscure configuration
> abilities.
>
> tia
>


BTW - just tell us overall, what you are trying to accomplish ???
ie - you have an internal wired IP network,
and are now adding a WiFi network for "customers" etc...

How many internal devices ?
What internal router is being used as the main connection ?
What Proxy Server are you using ?
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At one point, we initially had a static IP network to tell which users were
doing what.
But, as time went on, we dropped that, went with DHCP for all computers,
but left all the "devices" as static - so we could always connect directly
to them
(servers, switches, routers, disk array, printers, plotters, etc)
We also had the MS Proxy server for browser...
Oh yeah - this was across about 30 branch locations around the country...