Hoping for network setup help

Hello all,
Been lurking and doing some research (here and elsewhere) but just haven't been able to put all the pieces of my puzzle together; I'm hoping you can help.
Here's a diagram of my situation and goals/constraints:
http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?act=module&module=gallery&cmd=viewimage&img=673694
Basic description - our home has two structures as follows.
Detached garage/office space contains:
- ONT connection (with both Ethernet and MoCA outputs - we have FiOS Internet only, so I haven't shown the MoCA wiring in the diagram)
- Router #1 (wireless disabled, but even if enabled signal is too weak to cover entire house)
- Desktop PC running XP Pro (w/ Cat5 but not wireless)
- Printer #1 (w/ Cat5 but not wireless)
- 5-port ethernet switch (can be moved to house)
There is Cat5 wiring from the office to the house. The house contains:
- Router #2 (wireless enabled; must be in house for acceptable coverage)
- Laptop #1 running Win7 (Home Premium)
- Laptop #2 running XP Pro
- Printer #2 (w/ Cat5 but not wireless)
- Game console (wireless-ready)
The goals we'd like to achieve are (in order of importance):
1) Both laptops can wirelessly access the shared files on the desktop PC
2) Router #2 (in the house w/ wireless enabled) is the Verizon 9100EM, which has a more powerful signal than our old D-Link DI-624
3) Both laptops can wirelessly print to either of the printers
4) Desktop PC can print to either of the printers
Any tips on configuring the routers (and maybe switch) so that all of these things are possible?
Thanks!
John
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twohoos wrote:
That's the gist of my question -- how the two routers should be connected together and configured -- so I left those connections off the diagram. I assume the ONT will connect to Router 1's WAN port, but if something else could work, let me know...
If Router 2 is set up as a bridge, can it still provide wireless connectivity?
Yes it should go like this ONT------>Router 1 WAN Router 2 LAN(configured as bridge)------>Router1 LAN.
There are 2 ways to get Wireless out of Router2.
You can either turn the Wireless on and static configure all addresses in both buildings.
OR
If you would rather use DHCP, Go to Router 1 and adjust the ip range to exclude the IP range to be used on the Wireless of Router2. Then set the Wireless DHCP of router2 to the range you excluded from Router1.
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The Extreme is in the other end of the house wirelessly extending.
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Thank you lordstag!! worked perfectly
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Cornelius & Gerald......
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So thats my story i wanted to share with you guys and how ultimatly even w/o class mates to learn with......having a 'world' of fellow MAC users who are kind helping and loyal to not only their MAC of choice but the apple community and support friends they have never met but share a unique kinship in the elegance of what can this sleek machine add to our lives......and if we need help or ideas there someone out there has gone thru what you have.......and that almost always means it leads to some kind of success.
Anyway i would really like to hear what projects you guys work on.....what led you to being loyal to MAC or experience's that made it clear your glad you did........and are the current MACs still special compared by speed-power-reliabilty-ease of use ?
So again thanks for that support.......comcast wanted $150 plus $5 a month stating i would need their support........thast just too much for a simple router i found for $19........and w/ your help go it going.....having no support, no MAC community is when i feel overwhelmed and that steels my creativity away, so that why i shared allthis........i shows how important you all our.
so thanks again.........share a bit yourself......i look forward to it.
-dave

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-I am getting another ethernet switch since i am losing 4 ports that are on the old modem.
I am guessing that if i just hook the router up to the switch, and then the AE to the switch i wont have any trouble.
But now sometimes have trouble in my current setup, that is modem/router/hub (in one device) and then plugged into this an AE and switch. But but some PC's cant see each other, is that caused by the modem device (the hub inside it)? And so will i have that problem with the new setup i described?
If u think i need other devices please say so, i just want everything to work at the highest speed possible.
Thanks in advance.

A long time ago, I worked on a print spooler and was lent a JetDirect
box from HP to test with. A JetDirect card is in your LaserJet, I believe.
(One of the protocols it supported was localtalk, BTW). I think the
d-link isn't forwarding your localtalk packets. Anyway, one of the
things I remember is that the JetDirect spoke PCL, so that's another
consideration a driver has to deal with. The garbage you're seeing
is raw postscript. It needs to be rasterized and translated to PCL.
Please bear with me, my experience is very old, and there are gaps
in my knowledge. But I think this is do-able. I think the first step is
to add the printer directly by clicking here,
The location of the printer should be the address of the print server
(or canonical name if you're ever going to change addresses). The
device should be appsocket/jetdirect. The device uri should be
socket://nameoripaddressofdevice. The make should be HP and
the model/driver should be one of the Laserjet series, gimp-print.
I don't know which one, my experience ended around Laserjet 5, and
so do the drivers! But fundamentally they have to do the same thing.
They use the gimp-print package to rasterize the postscript and
encapsulate it into PCL. So I would bet the LaserJet 6 driver will work.
I'm sure everything posted here is correct, and that my experience
is too old and I don't know enough to know why this won't work,
but it's not a lot of effort, and if I were you I'd give it a try.
-Phil
Powerbook G4, iMac (Intel), and tons of hardware sitting in the closet Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Small Office Network Setup Help

Hi folks,
We are renting a small office in a floor which consists of many offices. The way internet is distributed here is, they have a verizon fios router and a couple of unmanaged switch, from which cables are run to offices for internet. One of the port on a switch is dedicated to our office.
In our office we have 6 computers and a network printer. The computers need to share files with each other and be able to print.
We want to isolate our office network from others. When we use an unmanaged switch, the version router dhcp assigns ip addresses to computers and we are able to access the internet. The verizon local ip is: 192.168.1.xxx. But we can also see computers that are of other offices, which means they can see us.
How do we create a separate network? Say we want to use IP 192.168.10.XXX or 10.0.0.xxx. We just bought a 24 port managed (L2) switch.
Thanks

Hello, rjbm_exact.
You definitely need a managed switch and a Cisco Small Business (200 or 300 series) can meet your requirements. You can setup separate VLAN to segregate user access level. Are you also looking at expanding your wireless (guest access)?
Let me know if you need more assistance or e-mail ([email protected]) me directly. Kind regards.

A newbie cry for connection/setup help

Hello people... my first post, so greetings all (and forgive the length of this content; I figure more info is better than not enough).
I'm located in an out-of-the-way area without much available support so I am being required to learn to install and manage a network/server setup myself, despite my relatively novice experience in those areas. Looking forward to bothering you as little as possible (through research and the Mac's "relative" ease-of-use), but hope for your assistance when it is mandatory. As it seems to be at the moment...
Current situation:
• Temporarily using an "AirPort" Express (I'm in Japan) for access (using DHCP, so acting as bridge?) to the Net via cable modem.
• Have this here MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo) and 3 G4s (APG) all connected over the wireless network w/o trouble and all running 10.4.9.
Trying to accomplish:
1. I have been issued static IP addresses by my provider and would "like" to setup an AEBSt (Extreme) as the gateway router,
2. move the Express to another room for relay/roaming purposes,
3. setup one of the G4s as a domain/mail/ftp server, and
4. ultimately connect a printer, etc., to the AEBSt via Ethernet/USB and a hub.
Taking one problem at a time, following the manual and AirPort Utility, etc., I believe I "basically" setup the AEBSt correctly; the wireless LAN network is visible and connectable w/o any trouble, but, naturally, I'm unable to connect to the Net -- neither Web nor mail works.
Maybe I shouldn't be guessing, but I "think" the problem is in relation to the router/gateway address(es). Of course, I'd also like to/should verify my other settings at the same time for whomsoever might have time to look at this matter for me. so:
Settings I have made in the Extreme:
• Airport
- Base Station tab
. Standard info/PW entered
. Allow configuration over Ethernet WAN port: OFF
- Wireless tab
. Wireless Security: WAP/WPA2 Personal
- Access control tab
. MAC Address Access Control: Not Enabled (though I may try using this, once everything is up and running)
• Internet
- Internet Connection tab
. Connect Using: Ethernet
. Configure Ipv4: Manually
Here is where I "think" the problem may be. When I enter the LAN and WAN side router IP addresses respectively in the IP Address and Router Address fields, I get a message that says the router address is not "compatible" with the WAN IP address. This led me at first to believe that the "IP Address" field is the WAN side, and the "Router Address" field for the LAN side IP. Same message though. So... I guess I need WAN or LAN side info only in this window...(?)
While entering either of these sets of addresses then allows me to continue and update the AEBSt, the Internet connection still doesn't work. I thought that a router requires both the LAN side as well as the WAN side info to be entered... may I simply be entering the wrong IP addresses in the wrong place...???? Presently, I have the WAN side IP/Mask and router info registered.
* Interestingly, the info for this AEBSt that appears whenever a new browser window is opened shows the IP Address as the default: 10.0.1.1. Open the actual configuration, though, and the IP address that shows up in the Summary and the Internet Connection tabs are the same. i.e., what I registered... Is the default the LAN side IP then? How, or can I, change that to fit the addresses I was allotted for the LAN side...???
- DHCP tab
. Selected 10.0.1.x for the range.
. Beginning as 2 and ending at 200.
. Lease at 4 hours.
. Blank LDAP server, and I added 2 reservations, one for the would-be server (10.0.1.2) and the other for a printer (10.0.1.10).
* I'm presuming that I only have the "need" to use a static IP address for the AEBSt (as entered in the "Internet Connection tab"), and the server and any other printers, etc. (reserved here); the other computers could continue receiving addresses via DHCP from the AEBSt as at present (though the correct domain IP to register for the sever would then be another issue for later... i.e., is it the IP address for the AEBSt)...??
- NAT tab (for installing the domain server)
. Enable default host at: OFF
. Enable NAT Port Mapping: ON and Selected FTP/Web Sharing/POP Mail with SSL
• Advanced
- Logging & SNMP and Bonjour tabs (left alone)
- IPv6 tab
. IPv6 Mode: Tunnel
. Block incoming IPv6 connections: ON
. Configure IPv6: Automatically
Then, using my MacBook Pro to test, and setting TCP/IP for the AirPort card to "Using DHCP", I'm being allotted 10.0.1.2 (even though that's supposedly reserved for the server), a mask of ...2555.0 and the router as that 10.0.1.1 (the default for the AEBSt).
* These, BTW, are the same settings that are working in the current Express setup.
That's it folk... I understand the logistics of remote diagnostics, but if anyone has an ideas... or needs more info... THANKS in advance!

Duane, thank you for your response (and sorry about the long, difficult-to-clarify post).
The main problem is actually that I simply can't connect to the Net through the AEBS (Web or mail -- I'm using a POP and SMTP server in the US for testing purposes).
I did what you noted and eliminated the DHCP reservations for 10.0.1.2 and 10.0.1.10 (and will issue static IPs for the server and printer, etc., that are outside the AEBS's set range when I end up actually setting up those devices), however in order to test the Internet connection first, I actually have only this MacBook Pro "on"/online. So there should be no address interference problem in that regard at the moment, right?
As I noted, the LAN network runs fine and I get 10.0.1.2 for this computer's IP (did a quick temp connection of another computer and it received 10.0.1.3, so the DHCP distribution seems to be working fine as well). Just get no response at all with the Web browser and email app.
Am I correct in presuming the 10.0.1.1 IP that shows as the default for the AEBS is the LAN side info and the IP and router parameter's I set in the Configure Ipv4 fields is for the WAN side? If so, then the settings all appear fine, and I even did the 'ol leave the cable-modem off all night and restart JIC, but to no avail.
From my perspective, the only thing I can see that is different setting-wise is that I was given static a IP address for my LAN side of the router as well, and that naturally differs from the default 10.0.1.1 in the AEBS. I can't find any way to change that IP address though...

Best network setup help

Good day everyone!
I read some posts here on some concerns with DSL modem/router w/ Airport extreme and would like to ask for the best setup.
Here's the setup.
ISP provided:
1. DSL modem- DHCP is set to OFF
2. DSL modem is currently using 192.168.1.1 for web configuration/administration
3. DSL speed is close to 2MB
4. Static IP address is 124.107.19.7
5. DSL connects using PPPoe
Internal network:[airport extreme Gigabit, base]
1. Airport base is set for DHCP
2. Dlink gigabit switch connected to airport's Gigabit ethernet
3. 3 Macpros connected to Dlink
4. 2 maclaptops connected to airport base using airport
just last night, I connected my DSL to the WAN port of airport extreme and took a while before all computers can connect.
the speed is not that stable..
I was thinking of assigning a static IP to the clients[macpros,laptops]
Would it be better to connect DSL modem to Airport's giga ethernet port instead of WAN port?
Would it be better if DSL modem assigns IP to Airport extreme? and to clients?
Here's what I want to do.
1. Connect DSL modem to WAN port
2. Airport extreme assigns IPs[DHCP]
3. Assign a static IP to all clients except the laptop[laptop will receive an IP from Airport's IP range]
4. Assign my router to the same network as Airport[10.0.1.XX][is this possible?]
Please let me know your thoughts and recommendations.
I want to make full use of the 2MB DSL speed.
Lastly,, is it possible to usb hub for connecting more than 1 printer?
Thanks guys!!

My current setup seems ok. Thanks anyways!

55UL605U Network setup help please

Ok so we've had this tv for weeks now and no matter what I try, I cannot get it to connect to my home network. Could someone please help a newbie to get this connected? PLEASE

Hello,
01: If Macs, this may be important...
10.5.x/10.6.x/10.7.x/10.8.x instructions...
System Preferences>Network, click on the little gear at the bottom next to the + & - icons, (unlock lock first if locked), choose Set Service Order.
The interface that connects to the Internet should be dragged to the top of the list.
10.4 instructions...
Is that Interface dragged to the top of Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations.
02: The beauty of the guest network - and the whole point of it - is that you get two separate wireless networks for the price of one AirPort base station. The traffic is segmented and isolated, so users connected to the guest network can't see or detect the traffic on the primary network, and vice versa.
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/541

Hoping for network setup help

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