[mdlug] Hopefully Easy Network Problem SOLVED?

[Peter Bart]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 07:16 -0500, Peter Bart wrote:
> Good Morning All,
> 	I wanted to set up to wireless AP's with different levels of encryption
> on the same DSL line. I need the different encryption because I still
> have older notebooks that don't support wpa. So what I did was to have
> the phone line come into the modem, then to a SMC auto sensing GB
> switch, then out to a Linksys WRT310 GB router and a WRT54GL router.
> Both routers run dd-wrt firmware, the 310 set up for wpa encryption and
> the 54 for wep. Plugged into the 310 is the ethernet wiring for two
> stations in the office and a Roku Netflix player. Everything is fine
> until I plug the WRT54GL router into the switch. Then my internet
> traffic slows to a crawl, both wired and wifi on the WRT310. I've
> checked the phone line and taken out an extra lightning arrestor at the
> demarcation point. There is another in the newer network interface
> outside the house and the line runs into a APC battery backup before
> connecting to anything. Not thinking that has anything to do with my
> problem but wanting to rule it out.I looked into bridging the slower
> router to the 310, but I came up with this. I'm not sure how much detail
> is needed so I left the details of the various speed tests out. I've
> tried plugging in the routers and modem into various different ports on
> the switch not really thinking it would do anything. It didn't. The
> routers radio channels are set to one and ten. The routers are about ten
> feet apart and the WRT310 is four feet above the other so far. The
> WRT54GL does not appear to interfere with connecting to the wifi on the
> WRT310 and vice versa. Hopefully I did something very stupid that's
> easily fixable.

	Apparently very easy. I turned off the DHCP server in the WRT54GL and
set it to be used as a WAP by following the directions here
<http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point>. Then I plugged
the host router into the modem, the switch into the host router and
everything else into the switch. That solved my original problem. Now I
can't access the WAP router and I'm trying to sort out encryption.

Best Regards,
-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net