BlackGarden
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I posted a few days ago about this, and I thought I'd fixed it (somehow), but as with most things which you fix without really knowing how, the problem has recurred!
To clarify things a little, I've attached a lovely diagram to this post.
Router A is connected to a cable modem, which is connected to the Internet. This is a wireless router broadcasting on channel 6. It is able to respond to pings.
Its IP is 192.168.1.1, and its subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.
Connected to router A is the desktop, which has full Internet access.
Router B is connected to router A. Here are a few of the settings which I've put in which I believe to be relevant:
SSID: Same as other router. The two routers are out of range of one another.
Channel: 11
DHCP: disabled
RIP: disabled
NAT: open
WEP settings: identical to those of the other router.
IP: 192.168.1.99
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
UPnP (whatever that is) is enabled.
Laptop A can successfully ping both routers with latency of < 0ms. Laptop B can ping laptop A with latency of < 10ms, but laptop A cannot ping laptop B.
Laptop B is able to connect to the Internet for very short periods of time, usually after resetting the wireless card. A similar laptop (same operating system, also with a static IP, but different wireless card) behaves in the same way. After losing their ability to access the Internet, both laptops can ping router B, but not router A.
I suspect that I may need to set up some static routes in one router or the other, but have no idea how to do this.
Running ipconfig on any connected machine shows the assigned static IP, the correct subnet mask, and the gateway of 192.168.1.1. DNS settings are all correct.
If you have any random ideas of anything I could try, please say, and if you need more info or want me to try something, just tell me what to do.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I set up the network with the help of the ideas in this article on the Netgear knowledgebase. Router B is a Netgear WGR614, so the instructions were very helpful.
To clarify things a little, I've attached a lovely diagram to this post.
Router A is connected to a cable modem, which is connected to the Internet. This is a wireless router broadcasting on channel 6. It is able to respond to pings.
Its IP is 192.168.1.1, and its subnet mask is 255.255.255.0.
Connected to router A is the desktop, which has full Internet access.
Router B is connected to router A. Here are a few of the settings which I've put in which I believe to be relevant:
SSID: Same as other router. The two routers are out of range of one another.
Channel: 11
DHCP: disabled
RIP: disabled
NAT: open
WEP settings: identical to those of the other router.
IP: 192.168.1.99
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
UPnP (whatever that is) is enabled.
Laptop A can successfully ping both routers with latency of < 0ms. Laptop B can ping laptop A with latency of < 10ms, but laptop A cannot ping laptop B.
Laptop B is able to connect to the Internet for very short periods of time, usually after resetting the wireless card. A similar laptop (same operating system, also with a static IP, but different wireless card) behaves in the same way. After losing their ability to access the Internet, both laptops can ping router B, but not router A.
I suspect that I may need to set up some static routes in one router or the other, but have no idea how to do this.
Running ipconfig on any connected machine shows the assigned static IP, the correct subnet mask, and the gateway of 192.168.1.1. DNS settings are all correct.
If you have any random ideas of anything I could try, please say, and if you need more info or want me to try something, just tell me what to do.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I set up the network with the help of the ideas in this article on the Netgear knowledgebase. Router B is a Netgear WGR614, so the instructions were very helpful.
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