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Looking for some help on setting up my home/home office network.
Here's what I have:
ISP--->Linksys Wireless Router===>Laptop
===>Laptop
--->Server
===>Desktop
---> is hard wired connection
===> is a wireless connection
Everything works fine. I all items are setup on the same network
segment (192.168.1.0) and I can browse the internet fine from all
computers and successfully ping everything in the network.
Now the problem - my router and server are located in my basement as
that's where the ISP's line runs to. I have a home office upstairs
with all the computers on wireless connection but I recently bought an
ethernet ready printer/fax machine and am having trouble figuring out
how I'm going to connect in into my network since everything upstairs
is wireless.
I currently use all Linksys hardware (router, cards, etc) so would
like to stick with them but I haven't seen anything that I can just
plug into my network ready printer that'll get it joined to the
wireless network. Can anybody tell me the best way to do this? Am I
going to have to get a wireless access point or bridge for upstairs
and a hub to plug the printer into? I was thinking about running CAT5
from my office to downstairs but that is a complete pain and there's
got to be a way to do this wireless.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks much,
Craig
Looking for some help on setting up my home/home office network.
Here's what I have:
ISP--->Linksys Wireless Router===>Laptop
===>Laptop
--->Server
===>Desktop
---> is hard wired connection
===> is a wireless connection
Everything works fine. I all items are setup on the same network
segment (192.168.1.0) and I can browse the internet fine from all
computers and successfully ping everything in the network.
Now the problem - my router and server are located in my basement as
that's where the ISP's line runs to. I have a home office upstairs
with all the computers on wireless connection but I recently bought an
ethernet ready printer/fax machine and am having trouble figuring out
how I'm going to connect in into my network since everything upstairs
is wireless.
I currently use all Linksys hardware (router, cards, etc) so would
like to stick with them but I haven't seen anything that I can just
plug into my network ready printer that'll get it joined to the
wireless network. Can anybody tell me the best way to do this? Am I
going to have to get a wireless access point or bridge for upstairs
and a hub to plug the printer into? I was thinking about running CAT5
from my office to downstairs but that is a complete pain and there's
got to be a way to do this wireless.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks much,
Craig