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Setting up networkThrough the years I have acquired a variety of equipment which was working
just fine until I added a new laptop running Vista64. I have 5 computers in my office, 3 in my living room and one in my child's room. They are all wired except for my child's which is running 802.11ag. One of the computers in the living is connected directly to the office where I have the other 5 computers. I have a 4-port wireless router and an 8-port standard router in the office which tie in to my satellite ISP. I have another 4-port wireless router in my living room that has my 2 laptops connected to it and this router is connected to the wireless router in the office. The 5 computers in the office, the living room computer that is wired directly to the routers in my office and the computer in my child's room all seem to be fine. I am unable to see either of the laptops from any of these computers. Each laptop sees only itself. I need to know what my best option is for tieing all of these computers into one functional network. Is it possible to piggyback one router to anotherand if so what is the best way to do so. I suspect it is possibly as I have been doing it for years. I just don't know if it is the smartest way to do it and if there are in particular pitfalls to it. If anyone can help at all, I will be very grateful. =?Utf-8?B?cGRlbm55?= <pde***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
Show quoteHide quote news:D4D8A064-12F8-4F10-B5D6-D0E9DDBC7A7B@microsoft.com: You don't mention exactly how everything is wired but I assume that > Through the years I have acquired a variety of equipment which was > working just fine until I added a new laptop running Vista64. I > have 5 computers in my office, 3 in my living room and one in my > child's room. They are all wired except for my child's which is > running 802.11ag. One of the computers in the living is connected > directly to the office where I have the other 5 computers. I have > a 4-port wireless router and an 8-port standard router in the > office which tie in to my satellite ISP. I have another 4-port > wireless router in my living room that has my 2 laptops connected > to it and this router is connected to the wireless router in the > office. The 5 computers in the office, the living room computer > that is wired directly to the routers in my office and the > computer in my child's room all seem to be fine. I am unable to > see either of the laptops from any of these computers. Each > laptop sees only itself. I need to know what my best option is > for tieing all of these computers into one functional network. Is > it possible to piggyback one router to anotherand if so what is > the best way to do so. I suspect it is possibly as I have been > doing it for years. I just don't know if it is the smartest way > to do it and if there are in particular pitfalls to it. If anyone > can help at all, I will be very grateful. > the 8-port standard router is connected to your internet modem and the other two wireless routers have their WAN ports connected to a LAN port on the 8-port. In order to have one network, you need to have only _one_ router (which is the one connected to your internet modem). Your wireless routers really need to be wireless "Access Points", or if wired, need to be Switches. Fortunately, you can configure a Wireless Router to be an Access Point and a Wired Router can be configured to act as a Switch. To do this, there should be no connection to the WAN port on these transformed routers. Check this site for instructions on how configure a wireless router as an access point: "How do I use a Wireless Cable/DSL Router as a Switch with an Access Point (or a Wired Router as a passive Switch)?" <http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html> HTH, John 
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