Hi,
I have a Belkin F5D7230-4 wireless router and I am trying to set it up
in my house with CAT 5 outlets in several rooms (one outlet per room).
My dsl modem is in the basement and is connected to the CAT5
infrastructure in the house. The Belkin has a single WAN and several
LAN ports and I want to place it in my office room. Since I have just
one CAT5 outlet in this room, if I connect the outlet to the WAN port
of the Belkin, then my wireless devices work fine. But a wired device
connected directly to the CAT5 outlet in another room won't work since
it is not connected to the LAN part of the Belkin router. I tried to
connect the LAN port of the Belkin to the wall outlet in the office and
then tried to use another network cable to connect the WAN port of the
Belkin directly to one of the remaining LAN ports of the Belkin. This
way, the Belkin can reach the dsl modem as well other computers on my
CAT5 infrastructure. However, this doesn't seem to work either and I
have routing problems and intermittent connections from some of my
desktops (connected to the CAT5 outlets in other rooms) that are unable
to reach the Belkin router with a ping all the time. I think this is a
routing problem overall since the Belkin router uses the same LAN and
WAN mac addresses. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me the
best way to set up the Belkin router. All of my computers run windows
xp.
Thanks,
Vasi