[Nikronius]

Well... hard to describe but here i go

What i want is set up 5 computers with inet and in the same network... the main problem is the physical ubication...

I have on hand a stream modem for inet, a Linksys wireless router and 2 hubs...

the physical distribution of the pcs looks more or less like this:



The idea is that the phone access is far away from computers 3 4 & 5 and is on the opposite wall for 1 & 2 so I would have wires in the middle of the way and everybody would step and kick it so I purchased the wireless for that, then I thought:

Modem with inet connected to Linksys, then linksys transmitting to computer 1 and 3 (they have wireless cards) and then computers 1 and 3 with hubs passing the inet to computers 2 4 & 5.

But main problem here, im in computer 3, it has the Dsl Signal with the Linksys router, but I cant pass the inet to 4 & 5 cause when i activate the LAN and the Wreless at the same time and try to set it up I cant put any default gateway cause there is no wire to the linksys or the modem, and on the other hand the Firefox will get the LAN as default inet conection and wont give me any inet, when i deactivate LAN and leave only Wireless then it gets the Inet...

I think that the same will happen to me on the computer # 1 so I decided to post it for having some help cause im not that good at networking as you can see guys... :D

Sorry for the 3yr old pic that i did but im kind of improvising at the moment.

It is important for me to have inet soon in the 5 pcs and also not having any wire in the middle of the way, there is a lot of customers walking around you know what that means...

Main question, would i be obligated to set up 1 computer conected directly to the Linksys with a wire and then transmitting the inet with a hub to the others? or there is any way to get the inet through the wireless and then passing it throgh wire to other pcs..??

Thanks in advance and sorry about the long post.

[leoh187]

Hi

Yes, what you are after is definitely possible. It may be easier if you could tell us what operating system the computers are running. As XP and above can do this easily.

I hope this helps.

Many Thanks

Leo

[Nikronius]

Actually a good question cause my cousin set this up and i have no idea what he used... Let me double check that.

[Nikronius]

Well we have here Windows XP SP2 in all of them, so basically as you said is fair easy here?

Please Enlight Me!!

:D

[Nikronius]

Ok there is something weird... in Wireless properties> Wireless Network, when i check in the box "let windows configure my wireless" windows detects my linksys but then it cant connect to it... it says that it is out of range and that the level is low... is weird cause when i use the program that came with the card it takes the signal very fast and strong...

wtf is going on??

[Nikronius]

well...I solved in here on my own guys:

Solution

Computer with Wireless card IPs:

Etherned

IP adress 10.0.0.6
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gatway... empty

DNS Linksys Ip

Then on the other pcs

IP adress 10.0.0.5
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gatway 10.0.0.6

DNS Linksys Ip

Done!

I also clicked on "configure a Home Network" and after that i didnt have more problems...

Hope this help to anybody else than me