Hmm, Ok I thought your plan was to run a cable from her Belkin to your
Linksys on your floor. If you're thinking of putting your Linksys on her
floor, then I think I would just see if I couldn't connect to her Belkin
from your rooms. I doubt that there will be much difference in the range of
the Belkin or Linksys.
Yes the IP address that you have should work find. In that case I would
connect your Desktop to the Linksys using a normal wired connection. If you
want a wireless connection then I would use an USB
wireless connection over firewire. Unless you are running out of USB ports,
a firewire adapter would most likely cost much more. If your not into
running cable between floors, some Linksys wireless routers can be put into
"client" mode, to allow them to connect to another access point. If you can
pickup the signal from your sisters wireless router in your apartment (on
your notebook), this is what I would use,
http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...VisitorWrapper
I believe that Linksys has this ability built into some of their wireless
routers, look for a client mode in the router setup pages. If it's not in
the firmware, you may find this in some of the enhanced firmware by others
for your router.
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"Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> David,
> Thanks very much. That is great news. 3 floors down(block single family
> home, I'm in the finished basement)If reception is an issue I figure I can
> just buy an expander/booster. The belkin router defaults to 192.168.2.xxx.
> The Linksys wirfeless router defaults to 192.168.1.xxx, so I should be OK
> as is?
> Again Thanks for the quick informative response, not to mention that makes
> my day.
> Frank
>
>
>
> "David Hettel MVP MobileDevices" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Yes. All you need to do is plug your Linksys into her Belkin. If you wish
>> for her to be able to access your computer, you would turn your Linksys
>> into an access point (disable the DHCP Server in it) Note that if you
>> choose to keep the DHCP server enable in your Linksys I would set it to a
>> different IP address range than the Belkin. So if the Belkin is passing
>> out a 192.168.0.xxx addresses I'd set the Linksys to use 192.168.1.xxx
>> space.
>>
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>> "Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> My sister and her son have belkin router used to share the cable
>>> connection ONLY. no network users, etc.
>>> Question. I am 3 floors down, can I hook my Linksys wireless router to
>>> one of the reg ports on the belkin and share the internet connection
>>> also?
>>> Thanks
>>> Frank
>>>
>>
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