Home Network Setup

54kroc

I have an Eircom Netopia wireless router in one part of my house and I have cat5 cable running from it it another part of the house where I have a Belkin wireless router.
When I conect through the belkin router the internet is as good as gone using both the wifi and a cable to connect to it yet if I take the cat5 cable and plug it in to the computer it fine.
Do I need to seup the belkin router to work with the netopia?

Webmonkey

What do you mean as good as gone. It's either gone or not! Unless you have a signal strength problem

cpu-dude

cork45 wrote: »

I have an Eircom Netopia wireless router in one part of my house and I have cat5 cable running from it it another part of the house where I have a Belkin wireless router.
When I conect through the belkin router the internet is as good as gone using both the wifi and a cable to connect to it yet if I take the cat5 cable and plug it in to the computer it fine.
Do I need to seup the belkin router to work with the netopia?

You need to set the Belkin to DHCP Automatic and turn the firewall off.

54kroc

Well only some pages load after a very long time and my download speed goes from around 6.1 to .31

cpu-dude

cork45 wrote: »

Well only some pages load after a very long time and my download speed goes from around 6.1 to .31

Because both the Netopia and the Belkin have an active firewall working.

54kroc

There only seems to be an on or off setting in the belkin for dhcp,it's set to on, will I just leave it that way?

cpu-dude

cork45 wrote: »

There only seems to be an on or off setting in the belkin for dhcp,it's set to on, will I just leave it that way?

Not the Belkin's DHCP itself, the Connection Type. There should be four:

PPPoE
PPPoA
Static IP
Dynamic IP

You want to set it to be on Dynamic IP. Apologies for not stating that earlier, it's the same as DHCP (just recieving the IP, not sending it - that's the setting you just found).

54kroc

cpu-dude wrote: »

Not the Belkin's DHCP itself, the Connection Type. There should be four:

PPPoE
PPPoA
Static IP
Dynamic IP

You want to set it to be on Dynamic IP. Apologies for not stating that earlier, it's the same as DHCP (just recieving the IP, not sending it - that's the setting you just found).

Ah sweet that seems to be working a treat, Thank You.

ollielaroo

What about this..

Can we not treat the Belkin like a switch/hub? i.e. give it a static address and turn off the firewall on it?

Dardania

You can do that alright - you're effectively treating it as a wireless access point rather than a wireless router. That's what I'd do-it would greatly simplify things...

Webmonkey

Yep that's what I'd do as well