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    Help with two linksys wrt54gx2

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by edup, Jul 29, 2006.

  1. edup

    edup Newbie

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    Hi I have this big problem....

    I had 56k on my home but then my neighbor told me that if I bought a wireless router He would let me get internet from his house whose is 1 mbps so I bought 2 Linksys WRT54gx2 routers with srx 200 and mimo technology .. the thing is that I connected one to the modem and every led is ok (Power, internet. wireless) and he has conecction on he's laptop but then I put near outside the other router to extend the conecction range, I just plugged turned it on and the power led is on and Wan but the internet led is off and in my house I have signal ( very low) but still I can connect but I cant search or do anything on the internet , its as if I dont have any connection, and I have 17% fo signal from this router and my neighbor nex to me has a belkin pre n wireless router and I get -4% of signal but with that I can search all over the internet and download!

    So can you help me , do I have to insert my router Disc ( the problem is that I need to be online with the router and the router is n my neighbor house and my pc is a desktop)

    Little help her please, what did I do wrong
     
    edup, Jul 29, 2006
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  2. azntiger1000

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    Whoa, you bought two wireless routers? Why did you do that?
     
    azntiger1000, Jul 30, 2006
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  3. edup

    edup Newbie

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    I'm a noob here and since they said in the package they are access points jaja I thought they were repeaters too!!

    Theres no way to make them a repeater configuration or something like that?
     
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    If you want it to be an access point, then you need to get a special kind of "router." It would be smaller compared to a router and would be placed in between a point so it can boost the signal. I'm not sure how far between is your house and your neighbors house, but with my router I can't boost the signal that far out.
     
    azntiger1000, Jul 30, 2006
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  5. gethin

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    What you need is to get an "access point" as mentioned in the above post, Most of these can be set up in "repeater" mode. But even then, it would be a lot less complicated if you bought your own broadband.
     
    gethin, Jul 30, 2006
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  6. edup

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    yeah But I don't have that amount of money here the service is too high, so what access point would you recommend for my wrt54gx2,


    In my package it says this router is also an acces point, can't it be put into repeater mode?
     
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    thanks im looking into it, maybe disabling dhcp mode?
     
    edup, Jul 30, 2006
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