Netgear wireless help

Hey guys, I appreciate any help you can give me.

I have a belkin wireless router that I have been using for about
year. I use it to connect my cable modem and various other computer
in my local network. I have a machine (without a wireless capability
that sits on the other side of the house that I need to hav
Internet/Network capability. I purchased a second router (A netgea
WGR614) and a Wireless access point (Netgear WG602). I connected th
WAP using an ethernet cable to my current belkin router. I want to se
the new wireless router in the other room and have it use the WAP fo
its' connection to my network. I cannot find a setting for the WGR61
to "use as access point". How do I configure these two netgear piece
to allow wired access in the other room?

thanks for any help!

-Kevi

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KevBas
http://forums.speedguide.ne



KevBass

"KevBass" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hey guys, I appreciate any help you can give me.
>
> I have a belkin wireless router that I have been using for about a
> year. I use it to connect my cable modem and various other computers
> in my local network. I have a machine (without a wireless capability)
> that sits on the other side of the house that I need to have
> Internet/Network capability. I purchased a second router (A netgear
> WGR614) and a Wireless access point (Netgear WG602). I connected the
> WAP using an ethernet cable to my current belkin router. I want to set
> the new wireless router in the other room and have it use the WAP for
> its' connection to my network. I cannot find a setting for the WGR614
> to "use as access point". How do I configure these two netgear pieces
> to allow wired access in the other room?
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> --
> KevBass
> http://forums.speedguide.net

you cant use the router as an AP only - you should have got 2 x WG602s and
then put them in repeater mode in order to extend the wireless
network...alternatively leave the WG602 as it is and get a wireless bridge
for the other PC.....I take it just sticking a wireless adaptor on the non
wireless PC (to connect to the existing Belkin was out of the question due
to range?
>

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:24:30 -0500, KevBass
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>Hey guys, I appreciate any help you can give me.
>
>I have a belkin wireless router that I have been using for about a
>year. I use it to connect my cable modem and various other computers
>in my local network. I have a machine (without a wireless capability)
>that sits on the other side of the house that I need to have
>Internet/Network capability.

All you have to do is run an ethernet cable from the Belkin to wired
computer in the other room and VOILA! If all of the LAN ports on the
Belkin are full, then you could connect the WGR614 to one of the LAN
ports on the Belkin then run an ethernet cable from the WGR614 to the
computer in the other room. Connecting the WGR614 to one of the LAN
ports on the Belkin makes in an access point.

>I purchased a second router (A netgear
>WGR614) and a Wireless access point (Netgear WG602).
>I connected the
>WAP using an ethernet cable to my current belkin router.

Being that you mentioned that you've used your Belkin for about a
year, I am assuming that the wireless feature is suffice. If so, then
purchasing the WG602 was unnecessary.

> I want to set
>the new wireless router in the other room and have it use the WAP for
>its' connection to my network.

Unless I'm mistaken, you did mention that the computer in the other
room did not have wireless capabilities. Right? If that is the case,
you can connect an ethernet cable directly from the computer in the
room to the Belkin or connect an ethernet cable from the computer in
the room to the WAP (Wireless feature disabled) and then connect an
etheret cable from the WAP to the Belkin or connect the computer in
the room to the WGR614 via ethernet cable then connect the WGR614 to
the Belkin via ethernet cable. See my point? All you need is an
ethernet cable. Now, if you're planning on giving wireless
capabilities to the computer in the room, then all you have to do is
purchase a wireless pc card, install it and configure it for your
current wireless network.

>I cannot find a setting for the WGR614
>to "use as access point". How do I configure these two netgear pieces
>to allow wired access in the other room?
>
RECAP: Unless I'm mistaken, you simply want to connect the computer
that does not have wireless capabilities and is in the other room to
your current wireless network. You will not need the WGR614 or the
WG602 to do this unless:

1. I misunderstood your post
2. There are no more available LAN ports on your current Wireless
router
3. You are planning on giving the computer in the other room wireless
capabilities.
4. You are trying to "BRIDGE" two networks together.

>thanks for any help!
>
>-Kevin

If I misunderstood your post, I'm sorry.

Thanx for your reply, but I think I was not clear in what I was askin
for. I don't want to run a wire accross the house to the other room.
I can't just add a wirless card to it because it is a replay TV, i
just needs an ethernet connection.

I was hoping to use the new router to connect to the access point s
that the router in the other room will be able to provide wired acces
to anything in the room. I think what that means I am looking for i
more of a wireless bridge to connect the new router in the other roo
to the prime router connected to the cable modem.

-Kevi

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KevBas
http://forums.speedguide.ne

KevBass <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> How do I configure these two netgear piecesto allow wired access in the
> other room?

Netgear calls this "wireless repeating" and describes it at
<http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101409.asp>. I don't know if
the WGR614 can do it.

"KevBass" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hey guys, I appreciate any help you can give me.
>
> I have a belkin wireless router that I have been using for about a
> year. I use it to connect my cable modem and various other
computers
> in my local network. I have a machine (without a wireless
capability)
> that sits on the other side of the house that I need to have
> Internet/Network capability. I purchased a second router (A netgear
> WGR614) and a Wireless access point (Netgear WG602). I connected
the
> WAP using an ethernet cable to my current belkin router. I want to
set
> the new wireless router in the other room and have it use the WAP
for
> its' connection to my network. I cannot find a setting for the
WGR614
> to "use as access point". How do I configure these two netgear
pieces
> to allow wired access in the other room?
>
> thanks for any help!

In the wired room you could use:
A device that will act as an ethernet bridge, this could talk to the
belkin or set up to talk to the WAP (WAP in regular AP mode) an
example of this
is a netgear wge101 (i think)
A device that can act as an AP in client mode. (maybe your wap will???
havent checked
2 Devices that can act as Bridges one on the Belkin and one in the
wired PC room.
A repeater will only give you wireless in the wired room, not wired
connectivity.
2 devices in AP mode will not communicate wirelessly.
Most likely the wgr614 by default is an AP only.