From wireless to wired

I have wireless DSL (Verizon). If I want a wired connection (since it's faster) what kind of cable do I need?

Does your DSL modem support Ethernet? If not then the first thing you will need to do is replace it with a plain DSL modem (no router.) Get an Airport Extreme Base Station to provide routing using either wired or wireless.
If your DSL modem does support wired connections and routing, then buy a switch to provide you with more than one Ethernet port. Connect the switch to the modem then connect your devices to the switch. If you only want to connect one computer then buy an Ethernet CAT5 or CAT6 cable with connectors on each end. Connect to the Ethernet port on the DSL modem and to the Ethernet port on your computer.
You will need Ethernet CAT5 or CAT6 cables of sufficient length to connect your devices.

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I just purchased the airport Express to use in hotels while traveling to create a wireless network from the hotels wired dsl. A friend said to set up the network from home prior to traveling. How do I set this up? Thanks.

I just purchased the airport Express to use in hotels while traveling to create a wireless network from the hotels wired dsl. A friend said to set up the network from home prior to traveling. How do I set this up? Thanks.

In addition to RyanJC's comments, the 802.11n AirPort Express Base Station (AXn) can store up to five different http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108081 configuration profiles. You will need to use the AirPort Utility to create & save these profiles.
To create a new profile:
Open AirPort Utility, select your AX from the list, and then, click "Manual Setup."
From the AirPort Utility menu, select "Base Station," and then "Manage Profiles."
Click "+" to create a new profile; give it a name, and then, click OK.
Set options, such as network name, passwords, Internet connection method, etc.
When done setting the options, click Update.
To switch profiles:
Open the AirPort Utility, select your AX from the list, and then, click "Manual Setup."
From the AirPort Utility menu, select "Base Station," and then "Manage Profiles."
Click on the desired profile, and then, click OK to apply the new profile and restart the AX.
Just remember to switch to the desired configuration profile before removing power from the AX.

Can I connect a PS3 wirelessly using internet sharing from my ethernet-wired iMac. It works for my Nook e-reader, but the PS3 give a DNS error code 8070102, I've tried alternate DNS settings, but no luck.

Can I connect a PS3 wirelessly via the built-in AirPort card using internet sharing from my ethernet-wired iMac? It works for my Nook e-reader, but the PS3 give a DNS error code 8070102, I've tried alternate DNS settings, but no luck.

Can I connect a PS3 wirelessly via the built-in AirPort card using internet sharing from my ethernet-wired iMac? It works for my Nook e-reader, but the PS3 give a DNS error code 8070102, I've tried alternate DNS settings, but no luck.

Wifi printer not visible from wireless devices after becoming a wired printer

Lexmark S515 printer: Wireless worked fine for about a year, now it doesn't stay connected to my EA-4500 router (I suspect the printer wifi radio is flaking out).
So I hooked it up via ethernet cable to my EA4500 router.
Now, I can only access ther printer (static IP: 192.168.1.101) from other wired devices on the EA-4500; can't access it from wirelessly connected devices.
Anyone know what I should change to get it to be visible from wired and wireless devices on my home network?

Try to check what's the IP Addresses of your wireless devices. Powercycle your whole network - unplug for 10 seconds and plug them back again. Start with the modem > router > printer > computers/wireless devices. You can also try connecting your printer directly to your wireless laptop and check if it can detect the printer.

How to Prevent or Block Rogue APs from Joining Your Wired or Wireless WLANs

Hi all, I deployed a WLAN with 1 WLC 4400 and 5 1252AP. I do not see the way to Block Rogue APs from Joining the Wired or Wireless WLANs

PART 1
There are three parts to this:
1. detect - automatic
2. classify - by default APs are untrusted/unknown, various methods can be configured to classify them as trusted and threat (connected to wired network).
3. over the air contain (aka mitigate) - in 4.x this is manual, in 5.x you can configure auto-containment
First you need to detect. WLC does this automatically out of the box. It listens the air for unknown APs, clients and ad-hocs. Are you seeing Rogue APs under Monitor > Rogues > Rogue APs?
Next, you can manually classify rogue APs as "known" (internal or external). Starting with 5.0 you can also build rogue rules based on RSSI, SSID, Clients, etc. If an AP is classified as "known" (internal or external), WCS stops alerting you.
Another key classification piece is to detect whether or not the rogue AP is physically connected to your network which is a high security risk. There are three ways WLC can detect it and neither of them is automatic. You must configure these methods manually.
1. Rogue AP Detector, aka ARP sniffing. You have to dedicate one AP as "Rogue Detector" (change AP mode from local to rogue detector). Configure the port the AP is connected to as switchport mode trunk (normally it's switchport mode access). Rogue Detector AP turns off and doesn't use its radios. When WLC detects rogue APs it can also detect the MAC addresses of any clients associated to that rogue APs, and the rogue detector AP simply watches each hardwire trunked VLAN for ARP requests coming from those rogue AP clients. If it sees one, WLC automatically classifies the rogue AP as "threat" indicating that the rogue AP is physically connected to your network. It doesn't actually do anything with the rogue AP, it simply classifies it and alerts you. Also, keep in mind that this method doesn't work if the rogue AP is a Wireless Router, because Wireless Routers NAT and ARP requests don't propagate to the wire.
2. RLDP. Rogue Location Discovery Protocol. This feature is by default turned off and can be enabled under Security > Wireless Protection Policies > Rogue Polices. This feature works only when the rogue SSID is open, meaning that it's not using WEP/WPA/802.1x. When you enable RLDP, your WLC will pick some AP (you can't pick manually) which hears Rogue AP traffic, it will temporarily shut off its radio, turn it into a client, and instruct it to associate to the Rogue AP as client (this is where the requirement comes in for the Rogue SSID to be open authentication). Once associated, AP gets a DHCP IP through Rogue AP, it then sends a special small UDP port 6352 RLDP packet to every possible WLC's IP address (mgmt ip, ap manager ip, dynamic int IPs). If WLC gets one of those packets, it means that rogue AP is physically connected to your network. This method will work when Rogue AP is a Wireless Router. But this method is not recommended. It has an adverse effect on your wireless clients because RLDP AP goes offline for a period of time disconnecting your clients and forcing them to associate to another AP. Also, keep in mind, that WLC runs this RLDP process *once* per detected rogue AP. It doesn't periodically do this, it only does it once. In some later WLC versions, you can configure RLDP to run only on "monitor mode" APs, eliminating impact on your clients. Also, you can manually trigger RLDP for a rogue AP from CLI "config rogue ap rldp initiate ". You can "debug dot11 rldp" to see the process.
3. Switchport Tracing (need WCS, and WLC 5.1). This is a later feature that requires WCS. You can add your Catalyst switches to WCS, and WCS will look at CDP information and MAC tables on your switches to detect whether or not Rogue AP is connected to your network. This works with secured and NAT rogues. You can also *manually* instruct WCS to shut down the switchport that Rogue AP is connected to.

How do I disconnect from Wireless to use wired connection?

Hi - I'm new to this and I apologize if this question is ridiculously easy.
I am using a cable modem in which I have plugged my WRT160Nv2 wireless router. I am supporting three computers here in my home; my laptop (both wired and wireless), my daughters laptop (wireless only), and my desktop (wired only).
Everything works great and I have to give all the credit to CISCO and the excellent software which automatically solves every connection problem that comes up.
My laptop and desktop are connected to the wireless router via cable.
My question is strictly about my laptop. When I leave my office in the house and go into another room, I establish the wireless connection. Now I am back in my home office room, I want to use my wired connection. How do I do this? Do I need to disable my wireless connection so that my wired connection takes over? Again, I do have my laptop connected to the wireless router via cat5.
I want to do this strictly for the speed of the connection. I've read that a wired connection is double if not more in Mbps.
This laptop is running Win XP Pro, SP3.
I hope this furnishes enough info to assist in an answer.
Thanks in advance.
John
P.S.. I really do want to educate myself regarding the equipment I am using and not have to ask such basic questions. Are there any books or websites you can recommend that can start me out and go as technical as I choose to?

Windows by default uses the fastest connection possible. If you have a wireless and wired connection active at the same time it depends on how fast both connections are rated. Wireless connections tend to change depending on the distance. Wireless 802.11g goes up to 54 Mbit/s. Wireless 802.11n can go up to some 300 Mbit/s. Wired connections are usually either gigabit ethernet (1000 Mbit/s) or fastethernet (100 Mbit/s).
Thus, which is picked depends on your computer. You should check the connection status of both connections in the network connections control panel. It shows you the current wireless and wired speed (the latter won't change of course). Very often, the wired connection is preferred to the wireless connection. Now with 802.11n connections the wireless connection is preferred if your wired connection is only fastethernet.
As your WRT160Nv2 has only FastEthernet LAN ports you have to check how fast the wireless connection is. If you have a 802.11n wireless adapter in your laptop it may show up the wireless connection faster then 100 Mbit/s. Depending on the setting it may change occassionally between 54 Mbit/s and speeds higher then 100 Mbit/s which would lead Windows to swap connections. If you see that problem it is better to switch off the wireless in the laptop while you have a wired connection...
A wired connection is more reliable and stable then a wireless connection. With wireless you can have interference. Thus, even though a wired connection may be slower then a wireless one you may prefer to use the wired connection anyway. And some people prefer to turn off the wireless to avoid radiation.
To sum up: usually you don't have to switch off the wireless, unless you experience problems because of the mentioned changing speeds of the wireless connection. The computer will always only use one connection. Not both.

Using a WRT54G as a second wireless and wired router on a LAN

I have setup a WRT54G as a second wired and wireless router on my local LAN.
The WAN wired side of the WRT54G is setup completely DHCP. It gets IP 192.168.1.104 most of the time. (I have used a PC with DHCP on theis ethernet wire and it gets to the internet OK).
The LAN side of the WRT54G is setup as 192.168.20.1 and all wireless and wired devices connecting to it get ips of 192.168.20.xxx and communicate between them selfs perfectly. However, none of them can get to the internet through the WRT54G. What have I done wrong?
Thank You

I guess your WRT54G is not connected to Internet directly, but it's connected to another router that has Internet access.
If this is the case, you can configure this device as access point/hub only in order to get Internet access from the other router. Ignore the WAN connection on this WRT54G, just connect both router's LAN port with crossover cable.. After that configure the WRT54G's wireless setting. You can get more detailed info on how to do it in following article:
Quick Guide to Configure Wireless Router as Access Point
Hope helps..

Document wont print on wireless or wired

I have a HP Photosmart6520 e-All-in-One. I have had it for about 6 months with no problems until today I am trying to print a document and it wont print. I tried it both ways from my Dell laptop, wireless and wired this document will not print. So I used HP Print doctor and was able to print a test page twice. I am assumming it is the document but for the life of me I can't figure out why.I even turned off my firewall and tried to print again with no luck and there is nothing showing up in the Print Que. Thanks for your help in advance

Hi heather13,
Welcome to the HP Support forums. I understand that you are unable to print to your Photosmart 6520 from your Dell laptop.
I’ve included the Print Jobs are Stuck in the Print Queue document. There are different sections for the different operating systems. Please click on your operating system and follow the steps.
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WRT54G2 v1 - Internet is Slow Wireless AND WIRED

OK, so I get my internet from a ethernet cable connected to the wall (I dont know if its cable or dsl because I live in an apartment) . When I connect from the wall to my Macbook the internet is fast with Mbps around 30. But, when I connect the ethernet cable into my router and try to access the internet, wireless or wired through the router it takes 15 seconds to load a Yahoo page or a Facebook page
Now the confusing part. When I use the wireless on my PS3 (set up with auto setting on it) it goes fast enough where it can even stream HD Netflix movies and fast enough to not get lag on Call of Duty or figting games. But, when I wanna look at a web page on my iPod Touch, Blackberry Phone, Macbook Pro, and 3DS it takes ages to load one. Interestingly enough I tried SpeedTest.net on my Macbook and these are my result when connected wirelessly (still takes ages to load a webpage, and it doesnt load hulu or youtube videos).
Any advice will help!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

As the previous poster suggested do a hard reset by holding in the reset button for at least 30 second then reconfigure the router if needed. You can also try the 30-30-30 reset where by you hold in the reset button for 30 second, then while still holding in the reset button, remove the power and wait 30 seconds, then while still pressing the reset button, reapply the power and wait another 30 seconds then release the reset button and reconfigure the router if needed.
It isn't clear if you are using some kind of broadband modem. If you are not using a broadband modem, have you tried to connect the Ethernet cable that comes from the wall to one of the four networking ports on the back of the router rather than the router's WAN/Internet port? Its possible your building all ready is using a router/hub. If this is the case and your computer gets an IP address from the building's router then log into the router and on the Basic Setup page disable the router's DHCP server to avoid conflicts with the building existing DHCP server.

(AVC) Is there Any way to prioritize traffic from wireless client (laptop in my case) to AP

Is there any way to prioritize traffic from wireless client (laptop in my case) to AP …. if i explain the issue in a broad way there is no congestion going on in wired network. When multiple users connect to real presence and all share the same AP. they get real-time output over the call BUT if someone start file-transfer over the same AP the real presence call voice/video get stuck.
I applied the AVC feature on WLC but as i tested, i think prioritization from my laptop to AP will not happen and the situation remains same.
Please share if there is any way to prioritize traffic from wireless client (Laptop) to AP only ?

Hi Vinod,
Here is the AVC & QoS interaction for upstream & downstream traffic. For downstream it is important you have configured your WLAN with correct QoS profile & 802.1p values as that play a role even though you marking traffic using AVC.
Upstream1. Packet comes with or without inner DSCP from wireless side (wireless client).2. AP will add DSCP in the CAPWAP header that is configured on WLAN (QoS based config).3. WLC will remove CAPWAP header.4. AVC module on the controller will overwrite the DSCP to the configured marked value in the AVC profile and send it out.Downstream 1. Packet comes from switch with or without inner DSCP wired side value.2. AVC module will overwrite the inner DSCP value.3. Controller will compare WLAN QoS configuration (as per 802.1p value that is actually 802.11e) with inner DSCP value that NBAR had overwritten. WLC will choose the lesser value and put it into CAPWAP header for DSCP.4. WLC will send out the packet to AP with QoS WLAN setting on the outer CAPWAP and AVC inner DSCP setting.5. AP strips the CAPWAP header and sends the packet on air with AVC DSCP setting; if AVC was not applied to an application then that application will adopt the QoS setting of the WLAN.
I am not sure which controller software version you are running. From AVC perspective, it is good if you could install latest NBAR protocol pack (4.1 for WLC 7.5.x code or 6.3 for WLC 7.6.x code) on your controller.
Here is the 7.5.x AVC deployment guide which should help you on this
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/controller/technotes/7.5/AVC_dg7point5.html
Like others mentioned, it is very little you can do with respect to upstream direction as AVC kicks in only when traffic hits WLC & not at the AP level.
HTH
Rasika
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Disable Wireless on Wired LAN Connection

Hi,
Right Now, my macbook pro use my ethernet and my wifi at the same time and i don't want that. Is there a way to say to my macbook pro to stay only with my ethernet connection when my cable is plug in it and no wifi come by? (I travel a lot with my mac and i cannot just do Turn Off / ON Wifi each time i plug ny cable in my mac)
Thanks in advance

The issue with what everyone suggests is that your computer STILL obtains 2 IP addresses. If you have 4 laptops in the family thats 8 IP's.. if you're in a workplace of 30 people thats 60 IP's for 30 systems.. doesn't matter if they are being 'used' or not. it's a huge waste of network resource.
Thats a HORRIBLE way to manage your resources. Plus, it wastes battery maintaining a connection it doesn't use.. Thats just silly! Apple truly does need to address this.. Even Dell laptops disable wireless connectivity (turns wifi on for GPS as needed, but keeps from connecting) while wired is connected.

Bridging wireless and wired network interfaces

Hi,
Is it possible to "bridge" the airport and ethernet network interfaces on a macbook pro using Leopard (10.5.7) ? I do not mean Internet connection sharing. That results in NAT.
I recently got a desktop in my room which doesn't have a WiFi interface. I wish to connect its wired interfaced to my mbp's wired interface and give it access to the wireless network my mbp is on. To do this I would need to bridge the wireless and wired interfaces on my mbp. All the results I find online to do this only talk about Internet Connection Sharing ..
thanks,
regards,
Puneet

You can turn on IP Forwarding to achieve most of what you're after:
sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
This will have the Mac forward packets from one interface to the other without NAT.
However you still need to use separate subnets, and may need to play with routing to get everyone to talk to each other.

[Solved] Preferencing Wireless over Wired

Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction. I'm doing some work with an embedded device that I need to access by ethernet. The device is configured to sit on 192.168.10.1 (at the moment). I've configured my laptop to sit on 192.168.10.23. At the same time, I have my laptop connect to a corporate guest wifi connection - which gives me access to the internet.
My problem is that I can bring both the wireless and wired interfaces up, but as soon as the wired interface comes up, I can no longer access the internet through the wifi connection. What I want to is have any connections outside of 192.168.10.x routed through the wifi.
What is the easiest/cleanest way to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by matt.tyler (2014-03-01 00:22:52)

Excellent, I completely understand now, thanks guys. I know enough to sort this out.
For anyone else who might have the same problem -
There are two issues here; the priority of the network and the default route.
The metric parameter listed in the routing table determines the priority of the network. The network priority determines which networks gets to go first. The lower this number is the more important it is.
The default route is the 'fall-through' rule. If your destination address does not match any other rule, it will fall through to this.
In my situation, I'd need to set the metric parameter on the eth0 route rule higher than the wlan routes, and then remove the default routing rule on eth0 and ensure it exists for wlan0.
In the event you want to make this automatic, you can add routing commands into your netctl profiles with the 'Routes' or alternatively the 'ExecUpPost' commands. See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1360955
Edit:
Now I've had time to fix this I'll add an example
Description='A connect to Jetbox'
Interface=eth0
Connection=ethernet
IP=static
Address=('192.168.10.23/24')
Routes=('192.168.0.0/24 via 192.168.10.1')
#Gateway='192.168.10.1'
8 DNS=('192.168.10.1')
For me, commenting out the gateway prevented the default route from being added and ensured that it gave preference to the wifi connection.
Last edited by matt.tyler (2014-03-04 08:58:05)

LasterJet 1022n network printing from wireless

The institution network configuration is such that there are two types of connections - wireless and wired.
As of now, the printer is connected via wired connection and has its own internet IP address of "142...". All computers that have a wired connection in the building can print to this printer just fine.
We would like to be able to print as well from a wireless connection. The wireless connection IP addresses begin with "132..." and so far can't connect to the printer.
Is there a way to print from a wirelessly connected computer?

What model printer?
What operating system?
What kind of router, encryption and ISP?
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Photosmart 6515 disables scanner from 1 computer wired to router.

Photosmart 6515 disables scanner from 1 desktop wired to a wireless router. Wireless laptops are fine. Computer won't load web pages while scanner is disabled. Can only enable it again by restarting the computer. If I choose USB connection from printer to desktop then the 6515 is not web enabled. Reloaded printer software & connection wizard. Ran HP Print and Scan Doctor with no errors being found. Windows XP operating system. No changes except Photosmart C700 to 6515 printer. Disabled firewall & problem persists.

OK, thanks for that. Let's leave the USB cable disconnected for this experiment.
Lets set a static IP AND an external DNS for the pritner:
- Print a Network Config Page from the front of the printer. Note the printer's IP address.
- Type that IP address into a browser to reveal the printer's internal settings.
- Choose the Networking tab, then Wireless along the left side, then the IPv4 tab.
- On this screen you want to set a Manual IP. You need to set an IP address outside the range that the router automatically sets (called the DHCP range). If you do not know the range, change the last set of numbers (those after the last '.') to 250
- Use 255.255.255.0 for the subnet (unless you know it is different, if so, use that)
- Enter your router's IP (on the Network Config Page) for the gateway.
- Enter 8.8.8.8 for the first DNS and 8.8.4.4 for the second DNS. This is Google DNS. You can choose another external DNS if you wish.
- Click 'Apply'.
Now, shut down the router and printer, start the router, wait, then start the printer.
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