"Adair Winter" <adairw@swbell.net> wrote in message
news:Td37j.6860$AR7.1285@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com...
> "-keevill-" <keevillus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> Thank you but that is what I am trying to do . If you re-read my earlier
>> post, I indicate that the client pc's cannot obtain an IP other than ones
>> which are near the only router rigged up for DHCP.
>> Or is there something I must do to enable discovery of the DHCP server
>> for client machines ?
>
> Are all the AP's actually AP's or are they wireless routers acting as
> AP's? The latter is fine but you have to plug into a LAN port not it's WAN
> port. (sorry if you know this but something doesn't sound right)
> Also are all AP's using the same SSID and encryption info? The only thing
> that should be different about each AP is the IP address and wireless
> channel (make sure they are not all on the same channel.)
>
> Your network should look like this
>
> Internet Modem to WAN of Internet Router/AP1 with DHCP enabled, from it's
> LAN port 1-4 (if applicable) to each of the 4 other AP's setup with static
> addresses outside of the DHCP range of Router/AP1.
> With this setup all wireless devices that associate with any of the AP's
> will receive a DHCP lease from the internet router and all non lan traffic
> with be routed to the internet via it's default gateway.
>
> I would setup like this
> router/AP - 192.168.1.254, DHCP 192.168.1.100-199
> AP1-4 - 192.169.1.201-204.

Something may be wrong here... I Have all the routers set up with different
SSID. Something like AccessPoint1... APKichen..APAccounts etc... they are
all using NO encryption till I get it working correctly. Some of them are
using CH6 and some CH11. About half each.
Does the SSID hold a clue here ?




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