Re: Can Valet be set as an access point only?

rebell1952 · ‎08-25-2010

"That will depend on how you set it up. You can refer to the article below. That will provide you the answer."

This has been the strangest experience. I have been trying for days to get this figured out and of the half dozen different posts with different ways to hook up the routers, nothing worked, I even tried variations by combining elements of different configuration schemes, still nothing.

Now this article says:

"1. LAN to LAN – Connecting one of the Ethernet ports (LAN ports) of the Linksys router (main router) to one of the Ethernet ports (LAN ports) of another router (secondary router).

This type of cascading requires the main and the secondary routers to be on the same LAN IP segment to allow the computers and other devices to connect to both routers. This configuration is recommended if you want to share files and resources within the network."

What I want to point out is "requires the main and the secondary routers to be on the same LAN IP segment." Is that saying like the main router's IP is 10.0.0.1, then the secondary should be something like 10.0.0.9 (9 is the first unused number). If so that's the way I set this up. Now, I have the two in sync I guess, as all the devices on both networks see all the others on both networks (that is, the devices connected to the main router and the devices connected to the secondary). The secondary router (my M10) has it's own SSID and WPA security passcode and works both as a wired router and as a wireless router, so I can now connect my internet ready devices wirelessly to the secondary. Also, I used a Netgear "Universal WIFI Internet Adapter to connect the main router wirelessly and then connected the adapter to the lan port on the M10.

I don't have a clue what I was doing wrong as this last time I set up this configuration, and I'm pretty sure I did everything the same, except this time instead of changing the IP address and disabling the DHCP at the same time, I only changed the IP, saved that and logged back in using the new IP. Then I disabled the DHCP and now it works fine. However, none of the different schemes I tried said to change the IP and then disable the DHCP after you log in at the new IP. They all just said that both had to be done, nothing about them being done separately.

Anyway, the main thing is that this is working now and it has solved my problems, the main router WIFI signal was used to get the connection to the basement without 30' Ethernet cables and the secondary router also being wireless, now my internet ready devices are in line of sight to the router and have a 5 bar strength status. So, alls well that ends well.

Thanks for your assistance.

pperie · ‎10-05-2012

I have a Valet M10, just bought it, configured it with IP 10.1.1.1 because my ADSL modem has 192.168.1.1 but for some reason the Internet port does not link up with the ADSL Modem Ethernet port. I connected my computer directly to the ADSL and I have Internet access.

What could I be missing on the configuration? The only thing I changed is the IP Address and the Wireless security settings, other than that is the default configuration.

opheliaimmortal23 · ‎05-04-2012

Are you trying to set the valet to just a wireless access point? You can set its ip address to 192.168.1.2, configure its wireless settings and after that disable its DHCP server. Make sure to connect it to the modem via lan to lan (ethernet port from modem to ethernet port on valet). That should work.

Check this link for reference: Cascading (Connecting) a Linksys router to another router

rebell1952 · ‎08-25-2010

Don't know if this will help anyone but in my situation I used a universal WIFI adapter in the line up:

1) Wireless router attached to modem;

2) Universal WIFI adapter to bring signal in basement wirelessly;

3) Valet M-10 attached to Universal WIFI adapter by ethernet cable; and

4) Valet DHCP disabled and broadcasting to my internet ready devices.

Still had to run about 30' of ethernet cable in the basement, but this solved the problem of getting the signal to my internet ready devices that had virtually no signal where they are located prior to this.

However, the rest works as in the above article. I haven't had a problem with mine since the above post saying I had it up and running.

geocabs · ‎11-18-2012

How does the hack make the appliance work as hub or switch? I'm interested to know if "network collision" will occur with this setup.

Thanks,

Geo

Jake_2.0 · ‎05-29-2012

If the router will be set to a hub or a switch then router will just act as a pass through device meaning the router will lose its DHCP server capability. This setup is applicable if you have two routers with DHCP capability and you would only want one router to act as a DHCP server.

rebell1952 · ‎08-25-2010

pperie wrote:
I have a Valet M10, just bought it, configured it with IP 10.1.1.1 because my ADSL modem has 192.168.1.1 but for some reason the Internet port does not link up with the ADSL Modem Ethernet port. I connected my computer directly to the ADSL and I have Internet access.

What could I be missing on the configuration? The only thing I changed is the IP Address and the Wireless security settings, other than that is the default configuration.

Because I don't know much about networking this may not be right, but I believe your problem is that your secondary router needs to be 192.168.1.2 (if possible) or at least something in that series, i.e. xxx.xxx.x.2-100.

rebell1952 · ‎08-25-2010

Jake_2.0 wrote:
If the router will be set to a hub or a switch then router will just act as a pass through device meaning the router will lose its DHCP server capability. This setup is applicable if you have two routers with DHCP capability and you would only want one router to act as a DHCP server.

The DHCP server needs to be the primary in all cases for this kind of configuration

opheliaimmortal23 · ‎05-04-2012

rebell1952 wrote:
Jake_2.0 wrote:
If the router will be set to a hub or a switch then router will just act as a pass through device meaning the router will lose its DHCP server capability. This setup is applicable if you have two routers with DHCP capability and you would only want one router to act as a DHCP server.
The DHCP server needs to be the primary in all cases for this kind of configuration

If you wish to have one network there only, then DHCP server on the main one should be enabled. And the secondary router will have its DHCP capability disabled. The physical connection will then be ethernet port to ethernet port. The first router can make use of 192.168.1.1 and the second router 192.168.1.2.