Hi everyone,
So initially I have 1 PC in my bedroom, on the second floor of my house, with 1 router. For convenience, let's just say they're PC1 and router1. I successfully connected my smartphone to the same network (via router1's wi fi), so I can access and send files from my phone to pc1 (mainly for work purposes)
Now I'm setting up the 1st floor of my house for a private office. So I got another pc, and a router, let's just say pc2 and router2. I managed to setup router2 as an access point, connected to router1 via LAN cable. So pc2 is now connected to internet via router2 - router1 - WAN. From reading around, I setup the SSID and password of router2 as the exact same as router1.
What I want to ask is:
- my phone only recognizes pc1, and not pc2. Understandable, because I set the SSID of router 2 the exact same as router1. So I can still access and send file to pc1, but not pc2, while I want to be able to access both pc from my phone. Should I change the SSID of router2? I'm afraid doing so may lead to a problem (I don't know anything about networking)
- I want to have communication between pc1 and pc2, meaning I can access files of pc1 from pc2 and vice versa. I know they're now considered in the same network, but how do I do that (access files)? Where should I setup in windows?
Edit: 3rd problem just presented itself. Now I can't access router2 menu from my pc. So initially, out of the box, router2's IP is set to 192.168.0.1. After reading about setting up an access point, I turned off DHCP, and changed it to static IP 192.168.100.50 (so as to have the same subnet as router1). Now I can't access router2 with both IPs. Tried turning off-on, still the same. It's working, meaning I still have internet on pc2, but I just can't access the menu of router2
OS:
PC1: Windows 7 32bit
PC2: Windows 7 64bit
Thank you in advance
So initially I have 1 PC in my bedroom, on the second floor of my house, with 1 router. For convenience, let's just say they're PC1 and router1. I successfully connected my smartphone to the same network (via router1's wi fi), so I can access and send files from my phone to pc1 (mainly for work purposes)
Now I'm setting up the 1st floor of my house for a private office. So I got another pc, and a router, let's just say pc2 and router2. I managed to setup router2 as an access point, connected to router1 via LAN cable. So pc2 is now connected to internet via router2 - router1 - WAN. From reading around, I setup the SSID and password of router2 as the exact same as router1.
What I want to ask is:
- my phone only recognizes pc1, and not pc2. Understandable, because I set the SSID of router 2 the exact same as router1. So I can still access and send file to pc1, but not pc2, while I want to be able to access both pc from my phone. Should I change the SSID of router2? I'm afraid doing so may lead to a problem (I don't know anything about networking)
- I want to have communication between pc1 and pc2, meaning I can access files of pc1 from pc2 and vice versa. I know they're now considered in the same network, but how do I do that (access files)? Where should I setup in windows?
Edit: 3rd problem just presented itself. Now I can't access router2 menu from my pc. So initially, out of the box, router2's IP is set to 192.168.0.1. After reading about setting up an access point, I turned off DHCP, and changed it to static IP 192.168.100.50 (so as to have the same subnet as router1). Now I can't access router2 with both IPs. Tried turning off-on, still the same. It's working, meaning I still have internet on pc2, but I just can't access the menu of router2
OS:
PC1: Windows 7 32bit
PC2: Windows 7 64bit
Thank you in advance