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#1 2008-08-27 10:22 pm
- powercat
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Network setup troubles
I am having some trouble setting up a network in my new house. The house is pre-wired for ethernet. We have a switch set up going from our cable modem to the different rooms in the house (each of which needs a seperate ethernet cable from the switch). When all is wired, things seem to work fine. However, when I try to add in my airport extreme, things go haywire.
I have the airport plugged in in one of the walls, so that the connection goes modem > switch > pre-wired > airport. However, when I do this, the internet gets dropped, both wireless and the other wired computers. Do I need to have the airport wired directly into the switch, as if it was it's own separate room, or do I need to have the connection be modem > airport > switch > pre-wired? Or is this even possible to do?
Thanks in advance.
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#2 2008-08-28 2:24 am
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Re: Network setup troubles
The wiring as you have it now should be fine, provided the wiring in your walls is good. (It probably is, but it's always a possibility.)
You do have the Airport set to bridge mode so it doesn't distribute IPs, right? I'd imagine either your modem or your "switch" is already taking care of that.
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#3 2008-12-11 1:03 pm
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Re: Network setup troubles
Try it this way
modem
|
airport
|
switch
| | | |
each computer
later down the line if you want to add another network you just have to add 2 more switches...
modem
|
switch
| |
AP1(192.168.0.1) AP2(192.168.1.1)
| |
switch switch
| | | | | | | |
each computer each computer
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#4 2008-12-11 1:37 pm
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Re: Network setup troubles
dvpierce wrote:
The wiring as you have it now should be fine, provided the wiring in your walls is good. (It probably is, but it's always a possibility.)
You do have the Airport set to bridge mode so it doesn't distribute IPs, right? I'd imagine either your modem or your "switch" is already taking care of that.
Seconded
rvaro wrote:
later down the line if you want to add another network you just have to add 2 more switches...
modem
|
switch
| |
AP1(192.168.0.1) AP2(192.168.1.1)
| |
switch switch
| | | | | | | |
each computer each computer
Why in the hell would he want that ... he wants to use the airport on the existing network.
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#5 2008-12-12 5:55 pm
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Re: Network setup troubles
just put an idea out there if the poster would like to create a second network later down the line.....
the idea was intended for the poster...
you seem to be very quick in making remarks on my posts.... did i do or say something to offend you in any way?
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#6 2008-12-12 6:25 pm
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Re: Network setup troubles
I try to read every new post (excluding ones in minithink) and tend to respond in most of them 
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#7 2008-12-12 9:44 pm
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Re: Network setup troubles
mrreet, you are a glutton for punishment. 
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