Were you the inspiration for the SNL skit, "Nick Burns, your company's
computer guy"? Your arrogance and self-superiority really remind me
of Nick Burns. If trying to help people on this NG is such an
inconvenience for you, why bother responding? I haven't seen anyone
as rude and condescending as you on any tech NG's in quite a while.

On Feb 16, 12:05 pm, Jeff Liebermann <j...@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
wrote:
> mark1.thompso...@btinternet.com hath wroth:
>
> >the 2 routers have different SSID's
> >they are on different channels [in original post]
>
> Good. That should work.
>
> >the 2 pc's/routers are completely seperate, no bridging.
>
> Ok, that eliminates that possibility.
>
> >pc 2 does work when connected over cat 5 to router 2 [in original
> >post]
>
> I missed that. Sorry. That means that broadcasts are not going
> through the wireless part of the Linksys router.
>
> >both are winxp platforms
> >both had dhcp servers running [range 192.168.1.100-149]
>
> I would not run both DHCP servers with overlapping ranges. If you
> happen to accidentally create a bridge between the two networks
> (easily done), then the DHCP servers would get confused as both are
> issuing IP's from each others address pool. I suggest changing it to:
> Router-1 .100 -> .129
> Router-2 .130 -> .159
> That also has the benifit of letting you know which router issued the
> IP address.
>
> >In my earlier post
>
> I'm not going to go searching for your earlier post.
>
> >I mentioned that I had tried dynamically
> >configuring the wireless connection IP and this had not entirely
> >worked, i.e. the wireless icon stated that it was connected but from
> >the PC i could not ping the router IP, well I have got it working now,
> >I switched of DHCP on router 2 [which I did not do initially], I can
> >now ping the router [192.168.1.1] over the wireless connection.
>
> Do the two routers perhaps have the same IP address (192.168.1.1)????
> Are they in the same class C IP block (192.168.1.xxx)? The
> aformentioned description sounds like either accidental bridging or
> duplicate IP's.
>
> >A
> >further complication was that once the wirelss connection was up and I
> >can talk to the router I then have to setup a VPN connection into my
> >ISP as this is my corporate broadband, this did not work until I
> >enabled RIP on the router.
>
> Bingo. You definately have the two routers bridged somewhere. RIP
> broadcasts from each router is advertising that they both have the
> best route to the internet. Your computer can't seem to decide which
> is the best route and getting lost. You can see the effect with
> traceroute to something on the internet. Methinks you'll find that
> your path is going through BOTH routers or the wrong router. Turning
> on RIP means that the two routers are now talking to each other and
> negotiating the best route to the internet. This is the way it's
> suppose to work when you have multiple routes to the internet and can
> only happen when you have an accidental bridge (or ethernet LAN) that
> will connect you simultaneously to BOTH routers.
>
> >I am happy that I can at least get connected now even though it is a
> >static address I have configured, I have read loads of posts however
> >which elude to the same issues with Linksys routers and Dell laptops
> >not acquiring DHCP addressing.
>
> 90% of those are problems with ASCII versus Hex WEP keys. MS does not
> supply sufficient diagnostics for mere mortals to figure out what
> point during the connection process has failed. All the user sees is
> a permanent "Aquiring IP address", so they think DHCP has failed.
>
> Please re-read my rhetorical questions from my previous posting. You
> managed to answer perhaps 1/3 of my questions. I didn't spend 30
> minutes writing this so that you can convince me that you've done
> everything correctly and that it should work. At the very least,
> kindly try just the WAG54S and PC with all the other stuff turned off
> and see if it works.
>
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