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Hey, I'm new posting here. First off, I'm a coder, but my boss
recently made me go out to his 46 acre farm to set up a wireless
network... hew figures a computer guy should know how to do this, and
as a matter of fact I should, but I dont. The deal is we need to
connect a temperature monitor on a distant building to the wireless
network. Here's my problem description ( i hope you guys have paience
with me):
We are using DLINK products. We have a wireless router on the office.
the office is about 50 feet away to the watch tower. I ran a cable
from the router to the top of the tower to plug in an access point
(DLINK AP 800+) and took off the access point antennass and replaced
it with a bigger better antenna that shoots straight to the building
where we have the temperature monitor. So far no problem, I get a
pretty good signal on that building (tested it with my laptop) and I
can browse around and everything.
Ok, so now I figured I needed another access point to make the
temperature monitor wireless, since the temp monitor is set up to work
on a network. I've set the DLINK 800AP as an access point and as a
repeater, and I cant get to either the monitor or the access point.
What should i set it as? Access point? Infrastructure repeater with
what MAC address? Ive tried different settings, but I'm kinda lost!
I hope I've explained myself... It's pretty confusing the way we've
got things set up there
Hey, I'm new posting here. First off, I'm a coder, but my boss
recently made me go out to his 46 acre farm to set up a wireless
network... hew figures a computer guy should know how to do this, and
as a matter of fact I should, but I dont. The deal is we need to
connect a temperature monitor on a distant building to the wireless
network. Here's my problem description ( i hope you guys have paience
with me):
We are using DLINK products. We have a wireless router on the office.
the office is about 50 feet away to the watch tower. I ran a cable
from the router to the top of the tower to plug in an access point
(DLINK AP 800+) and took off the access point antennass and replaced
it with a bigger better antenna that shoots straight to the building
where we have the temperature monitor. So far no problem, I get a
pretty good signal on that building (tested it with my laptop) and I
can browse around and everything.
Ok, so now I figured I needed another access point to make the
temperature monitor wireless, since the temp monitor is set up to work
on a network. I've set the DLINK 800AP as an access point and as a
repeater, and I cant get to either the monitor or the access point.
What should i set it as? Access point? Infrastructure repeater with
what MAC address? Ive tried different settings, but I'm kinda lost!
I hope I've explained myself... It's pretty confusing the way we've
got things set up there