[mx-6*]

Here is the situation. I want to extend an existing wireless unsecured network. I want to do this at work. I have an office where I have wireless but I spend 90% of my time in another building across the street and have no access while there and I need it. I can sit outside my building with my laptop and get a low level signal but I can't sit outside all day, lol.

So I bought a Buffalo Wireless High Power Router/Access Point to sit in a window that I could connect to with a Cat5 cable. It supposedly works for 200+ Meters so should be the right thing. The problem is that when I switch it to bridged mode to work as a wireless access point it turns off DHCP and cannot connect without having a static route assigned. Since we have DHCP enabled I don't know what IP to set for the static route. The documentation doesn't help at all. It says to set it to a non DHCP IP but since our wireless system is in the roof I don't know how I can connect to it to check what is DHCP enabled and what isn't. I think the whole range is enabled anyway and we don't want to change it anyway.

I do know that when I connect my laptop to the wireless connection from outside it is assigned an IP of 192.168.2.141. With DHCP enabled on this connection what can I do to get the access point working when the access point disables DHCP?

If there is an easier way then I'd prefer that. What I really wanted was basically something that I could plug into the wall that could retransmit it to my laptop which is behind a serious concrete wall. I planned on running Cat5 from the access point to my laptop to ensure a good signal.

Since the access point doesn't connect due to DHCP what is my best option?

[The_Jizzler]

the buffalo doesnt need to be bridged. thats for connecting two wlans. plug the cat5 into a switch porton the buffalo, NOT THE WAN port. turn off dhcp. if theres somewhere to switch the buffalo from gateway to router/switch do it. should work.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by The_Jizzler

the buffalo doesnt need to be bridged. thats for connecting two wlans. plug the cat5 into a switch porton the buffalo, NOT THE WAN port. turn off dhcp. if theres somewhere to switch the buffalo from gateway to router/switch do it. should work.

This is correct and is how my network is setup at home so that I can extend my wireless to the other end of the house.

Also make sure the Buffalo router is not assigned the same IP as your DHCP serving router. If the Internet-connected router is 192.168.2.1, then the Buffalo could be 192.168.2.2.