[Wylug-help] What am I missing (router question)

[Roger]

Roger Greenwood wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2007 22:03, Shaun Laughey wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:28 +0100, Roger Greenwood wrote:
>>> On Monday 30 April 2007 21:18, Lee Evans wrote:
>>>> What you want to do is give your hub/wireless access point an IP on the
>>>> same subnet as your local machine [192.168.1.x]
>>> Thanks Lee,

If I'm right, either you need to (best) set both bits of gear to the 
same ip range - 192.168.1.x or 192.168.0.x - or else you need to widen 
the mask from 255.255.255.0 (to 255.255.248.0 for instance) maybe as a 
step on the way.  Without knowing what's within the scope of the 
configuration tools you have, it's hard to know which to recommend. 
However, I had a very similar problem: my lan was configured around 
193.168.1.x and then bought a WAP that came with a default ip of 
192.168.2.1 ...

Step one was to give one of the machines another 192.168.2.x ip, so I 
could access the WAP's configuration page.  Step 2 was to reset the 
WAP's ip to 193.168.1.y - whereupon I lost contact.  Resetting the 
machine used to control the WAP to its original, 192.168.1.x ip, got me 
back in contact and then things went OK.

Another issue was that at home I was using 192.168.1.x but the net at 
work was using 192.168.0.x  I finally discovered that my laptop had some 
quite neat reconfiguration software, but doing it manually, the key had 
been to widen the mask (less than 255.255.255.0) so that I could get 
access to a wider range of subnet.

I hope that's coherent enough (though given the hour and the empty 
bottle it may not be), but if not, feel free to mail me off-list.

Roger