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dummy down a wireless router

Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
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Is there any way to dummy down a router so it is only sharing the internet and not seperate me from the intranet here at school?

I need to be able to use Rendezvous and i cannot while on the router because it puts me in its own little LAN.

BTW its a Dlink DI-614+

Thanks!

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  • ArikArik Galen's Apprentice
    Sounds like what you are trying to do is to make your school's network wireless. This can be done, but you'd need a WAP to do this, while the 614+ is a router.

    I did something similar at work though it was Linksys instead of DLink... I was able to use the Linksys wireless router as a WAP, but it ended up crashing the network... I called Linksys Tech Support and they told me the router was not designed to function as a WAP and so they just replaced my router with a WAP to make sure that network problem never happened again.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Search if there's change to put it in bridged mode, in which it doesn't make NAT and those other things.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Which one of these two models it is?
    [url]http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=20#manual[/url]
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    revision B

    And whats a bridge? and therefore a nat?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    NAT = network address translation. It lets one network appear to be a single node on another network. Most home uses who share a single internet connection among multiple computers are using NAT, even if they don't know it.

    A bridge literally bridges two networks, so that traffic from one can flow to the other easily.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rogue Trader [/i]
    [B]revision B

    And whats a bridge? and therefore a nat? [/B][/QUOTE]
    NAT is something bridge doesn't do.

    Bridge only connects two subnets/networks (like connector connects two cables) when router separates two subnets/networks and directs traffic between them.

    [url]http://computer.howstuffworks.com/nat.htm[/url]

    [url]http://computer.howstuffworks.com/lan-switch.htm[/url]

    I'll check manual if thre's way to put it in bridging mode.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    Re: dummy down a wireless router

    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rogue Trader [/i]
    [B]Is there any way to dummy down a router so it is only sharing the internet and not seperate me from the intranet here at school?

    I need to be able to use Rendezvous and i cannot while on the router because it puts me in its own little LAN.[/B][/QUOTE]
    Has this intranet DHCP server/does it give IP automatically?
    If there is then you'll have to disable router's DHCP.

    There's no option for setting this router in to bridging mode, but you can get your own network "bridged" to school's intranet by using normal port instead of WAN port to plug it in to wall socket. (now it should work like "normal" hub/switch, but with only three ports)
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    what about twireless?
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    i tried it and it would allow me limited access to the intranet, IE i could see shared music through ITunes but couldnt use Rendevous, and i had no internet access for both computers.
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rogue Trader [/i]
    [B]...and i had no internet access for both computers. [/B][/QUOTE]
    Do you mean that only one computer works at a time?
    And try turning firewall and filters of from router.
    Or if you know what ports Rendezvous uses make rule that open those ports.
  • Rogue TraderRogue Trader Somebody stop him...
    when i plug it from the wall to a lan port over the wan i couldnt use the internet.

    and im not sure what ports it uses
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