[lherring81]

We have a network here at our place of business that was installed by the pc technician that handled our upgrade. We initially only had a embarq wireless router/modem and was hooked directly to our only pc. Now we have 2 pc's, and have networked our facility to accomodate many more. This is what the connection looks like.

DSL Line to Embarq router/modem--> D-link ebr2320 wired router--> Ethernet cord to printer, pc 1 and pc 2 from d-link router.

How can I access the wireless router? If i hook the main computer directly to wireless router I get nothing, even when I enter the router's IP address. When I do the switch, I ensure that the DSL line is correctly hooked to the wireless router and that the main pc is rebooted.

What is going on?

 

[johnwill]

If you want access to all machines to the router, you can do a couple of things.

One would be to lose the D-Link router and just use a switch there. You already have a router, so the second one is redundant.

 

[lherring81]

when i remove the d-link, and hook everything to my embarq dsl router, i can't connect to the internet. am I doing something wrong? Are we "safer" using a dlink router vs the one embarq gaves us?

 

[johnwill]

Connect your single machine that works on the Embarq router and post the following information.


Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following command:

Note that there is a space before the /ALL, but there is NOT a space after the / in the following command.

IPCONFIG /ALL

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter to copy the contents to the clipboard.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.