OutToLunch
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i hope you guys can help me cuz i'm pulling my hair out on this one.
i just swapped around how i had the network in my house wired up. we have satellite internet, so i have to have the satellite modem where the cables come into the house - and that would be in my daughter's room. the way i had the set up previously was this:
satellite modem to a d-link router in my daughter's room. my daughter's computer was tied one of the LAN ethernet jacks on the d-link. a very old wireless router (no wires needed parrot 1100, if you're interested) was also tied into one of the LAN ethernet jacks on the d-link router. i then had my laptop wirelessly connected and my wife's computer in her office was wirelessly connected through a wireless PCI card.
so that worked, but the wireless part was a little flaky - coverage around the house was spotty and i think the wireless card in my wife's computer was hosed cuz it would have signal then not have signal back and forth, etc. she was getting tired of the intermittent connection so it had to be fixed.
this is what i did:
i fished two ethernet cables through the walls and ceiling so that they ran right next to each other and terminated at wall jacks - one set in my daughter's room and one set in my wife's office. I then took the ethernet connection from the satellite modem and plugged it into one of the new wall jacks in my daughter's room. The complementary jack in my wife's office was connected to a new linksys wrt54g wired/wireless router. i then connected my wife's computer to one of the LAN connections on the linksys router (her computer is no longer wireless). I then took one of the three remaining LAN connections on the linksys router and fed it into the second ethernet wall jack in my wife's office. The complementary jack in my daughter's room was then connected to her computer's ethernet jack. This set up allowed both my wife and daughter's computer to be hardwired with a more powerful wireless router located centrally in the house.
With this new set up, my wife's computer is now connected perfectly fine - no problems. I get much better reception on my laptop throughout the house on the wireless link. the problem is with my daughter's computer - it sees that there is a network, it says that it is connected (at 100Mbps), but it will not acquire an IP address from the router. i have not changed a thing on her computer - it connected perfectly fine with the old d-link router (obtains IP address automatically, etc). i also brought home an ethernet cabling tool from work (little doohickey that they use to check for shorts or crossed wires, etc) - i used it to check all the patch cables i was using and then i used it to check all the cabling that i ran through the walls and ceiling - all the wiring tested fine. i also plugged my wife's computer's ethernet cable into all 4 of the linksys LAN connections - no problems there.
what am i missing???
i just swapped around how i had the network in my house wired up. we have satellite internet, so i have to have the satellite modem where the cables come into the house - and that would be in my daughter's room. the way i had the set up previously was this:
satellite modem to a d-link router in my daughter's room. my daughter's computer was tied one of the LAN ethernet jacks on the d-link. a very old wireless router (no wires needed parrot 1100, if you're interested) was also tied into one of the LAN ethernet jacks on the d-link router. i then had my laptop wirelessly connected and my wife's computer in her office was wirelessly connected through a wireless PCI card.
so that worked, but the wireless part was a little flaky - coverage around the house was spotty and i think the wireless card in my wife's computer was hosed cuz it would have signal then not have signal back and forth, etc. she was getting tired of the intermittent connection so it had to be fixed.
this is what i did:
i fished two ethernet cables through the walls and ceiling so that they ran right next to each other and terminated at wall jacks - one set in my daughter's room and one set in my wife's office. I then took the ethernet connection from the satellite modem and plugged it into one of the new wall jacks in my daughter's room. The complementary jack in my wife's office was connected to a new linksys wrt54g wired/wireless router. i then connected my wife's computer to one of the LAN connections on the linksys router (her computer is no longer wireless). I then took one of the three remaining LAN connections on the linksys router and fed it into the second ethernet wall jack in my wife's office. The complementary jack in my daughter's room was then connected to her computer's ethernet jack. This set up allowed both my wife and daughter's computer to be hardwired with a more powerful wireless router located centrally in the house.
With this new set up, my wife's computer is now connected perfectly fine - no problems. I get much better reception on my laptop throughout the house on the wireless link. the problem is with my daughter's computer - it sees that there is a network, it says that it is connected (at 100Mbps), but it will not acquire an IP address from the router. i have not changed a thing on her computer - it connected perfectly fine with the old d-link router (obtains IP address automatically, etc). i also brought home an ethernet cabling tool from work (little doohickey that they use to check for shorts or crossed wires, etc) - i used it to check all the patch cables i was using and then i used it to check all the cabling that i ran through the walls and ceiling - all the wiring tested fine. i also plugged my wife's computer's ethernet cable into all 4 of the linksys LAN connections - no problems there.
what am i missing???
