The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Going from wired to wireless

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by El Penetrator, Sep 18, 2006.

  1. El Penetrator

    El Penetrator Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    85
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I'm receiving my W3J on wednesday and would like to be able to roam around with it in my house, currently I have 2 computers connected through a switch to the ADSL modem. The reason I use a switch over a router is because I want each computer to have a public IP (my ISP allows up to 4 IPs per modem), so I'd like to continue doing so once I get my laptop.

    I've considered my options:
    1) Add an access point to the switch and connect through it.
    2) Replace the switch with a wireless router and disable NAT/DHCP.

    I've looked around for access points and they seem expensive, sometimes even more so than routers. My guess is I should get the router and use it as a "wireless switch", if I even need the routing functions again I can turn them back on.

    What I don't know is: do all routers allow you to disable NAT so my 3 computers can fetch external IPs from the modem? I was thinking of getting the D-LINK WIRELESS 4PORT DI-524 (Check NickS' excellent sticky for more info on it).
     
    El Penetrator, Sep 18, 2006
    #1