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WilliamCZ

Hello everyone, need a little help with networking.

This is the scheme of my network at home. I need my computers to be able to see each other, so I can share stuff with the other one, I can only ping from one to other one, but I'm not able to see the other one in the network, all I can see is the device, that the computer is connected to, but I can't see any "deeper" in this network.

Any idea how do I do this?

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Tetony

Do this

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WilliamCZ

Would be the easiest way, but I'm not going to do it, because of many things - first of all, it's a bit too far.

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aeternitas

move the router to the modem, and put a hub/switch where you had the router.
router should do wifi, dns, dhcp and use the modem as gateway, keep the modem as stupid as possible.

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SpaceClick

If PC1 and PC2 are far away and don't have Wi-Fi (hardwired only) then doing that will not work. How is the new hub/switch supposed to connect to the router which you moved to the other side of the house?

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rodobodolfo

or maybe this

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SpaceClick

That assumes that PC1 has Wi-Fi, which I assume it does not.

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rodobodolfo

a wifi stick? these are quite cheap...
Still, the best thing to do here, is to remove all routing/wifi from modem and connect it to the router. all pcs in the network should be connected to the router. As someone wrote before "keep the modem as stupid as possible".

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SpaceClick

How do you have two devices connected to the modem?? Your modem has Wi-Fi?

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Tetony

I presume it's a modem witch also has a rudimentary router, so yes it is possible to have LAN wired and wireless from it.

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WilliamCZ

Exactly, it doesn't matter if something is connected by a cable or Wi-Fi to it. It's basically the same.

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SpaceClick

You said it was a modem, not a router with a modem, but anyway, it is not the same if your router/modem does not support wireless bridging.

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tbshu

You can configure the router to act only as a bridge, if your router is able to do this.
In this way you will have the DHCP only on your modem, so all the devices will be on the same network.

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WilliamCZ

Yeah, already tried to do it, but when I set it to bridge mode, I'm not able to connect to my modem by Wi-Fi, since this option gets blacked out by switching it to bridge.

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SpaceClick

You need to use wireless bridging which I am not sure if most current routers support. I use WDS but they are old routers and I don't know if routers use that protocol anymore.

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tbshu

Never tried to do this with a router, but I have the "same" network at home.
The only difference is that I have a range extender (Netgear WN 2000RPT) instead of the router. I made the bridge, disabled DHCP and all went fine.

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WilliamCZ

Yeah, it should be working with range extenders just fine, but my router doesn't support this.

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rodobodolfo

If you are getting ping you are on the right track...
Can you ping PC1 to PC2 and viceversa? if so:
Make sure both PC are on the same subnet with same gateway (your router IP)
Make sure Both PC have same workgroup name.
Have you turn your firewalls off for testing?

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robertfreez

D-LAN for file sharing or Dukto, simple and clean

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Besi

What's the purpose of that router? I'd say, you put the router next to your modem and buy a wifi card for PC2.

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Closed 10 years ago by WilliamCZ.