WNR834B to WNR834B Connection

Can someone provide actually real steps on how to do this? Because I have a Bluray player downstairs and I am trying to hook it up to the internet. I bought an EXTRA WNR834B based on the advice that some Netgear technician told me.

He said that it would be able to communicate with the other router in order to bring internet connection to the player thru Ethernet cable. That once I had it would be "simple" and all I'd have to do is call Netgear and one of their agents would walk me thru it.

Well Ive wasted over 3 hours with them and STILL no solution or clear instructions. To make things worse they keep disconnecting me.

Does anyone have any expertise in this field. What exactly am I trying to do here (I don't know the proper term). And if anyone knows what I need to do or has worked with this router before I really need your help.

 

The 834 supports WDS, So it can work as a repeater to your main router (WNR834B) to increase range. There should be a WDS option on the setup. Select it, then you need to select the AP (main routers SSID) for you want it to connect to. Once selected you need to enter the security key. This should allow wireless to wireless connection between the 2 834. Now you just need to connect the wired ports. It may support wireless clients too, but I will need to look over the firmware options.

I hope this is enough to get you started.

 

Yeah I'm so close but these Netgear guys are absolute idiots. Like seriously I've figured out half of this stuff off. He says one thing and then I mention something and he's like, "uh let me talk to someone else" or "umm yeah you're right".

What makes it worse is that since I'm so close I don't want to just guess, mess up royally and then have to start all over again.

 

Have you been able to see the other router (main)?

 

I got it so that I was able to connect to the internet with the 2nd router (the one that I set up to be an access point) by having it plugged with an ethernet cable from Port 1 to the back of the computer.

So I got it to work.

The only issue and it's a minor one really is that now when I go to the Network and Sharing Center in Vista and click on "view full map" I'm unable to to see map of all the devices in the network. It gives some type of error. According to the Windows Help index it's because I have a switch or something now. And that the only way to fix it is to either disable it or remove it which completely defeats all the effort I put into doing it.

So if anyone knows anything about why that's happening and how to change it let me know please.

The only other thing I need to do is verify that the internet connection for the Bluray Disc Player is functioning properly.

 

You need only the main router to hand out IP's (DHCP server). The other should not, is so your have 2 independent networks.

 

So I should logon to the 2nd router's main web page and disable DHCP correct?

 

Yes, the second router should have disabled it when WDS was setup.

Since you are close, use the save setting feature while you work on them. This way if you do something to break it you can backup easily.

 

Yeah I backed up the settings for the base station. I will back up the repeater station as soon as I get this BD Live stuff working on my Bluray Disc Player.

Still getting that error when I try to "View full map" under the N&S Center for Vista.

I noticed while going thru the BD Players menu that under the Network section it has a DHCP line and that it's turned on...

Should I turn that off and see if it resolves things? However when I turn it off it asks for all this other stuff underneath like IP Address I believe. So I'm not sure what I should do but it's occurring to me that Vista might simply just not recognize that it's a Bluray Disc Player and since it doesn't know what it is it's refusing to display the entire map.

Which is dumb to me.

 

Check to see if the BR has a section for workgroup. If it's not in the same group as all of your other computers it will not show up in the list.

Also is the BR in the same subnet as the main router?

 

I'm getting different opinions from you and some guys from a bluray forum. They claim I should keep the DHCP enabled on the router and the player.

Anyways I'm gonna work on it tomorrow.

 

If you run 2 DHCP servers you must merge them if you want to see computer on each network. To merge you may/need to use a RIP feature of the routers.

I was trying to get the routers to work together as 1 network. It may be the easiest to run a network cable between maybe using a powerline carrier. These devices use the house wiring, but these units are not cheap and the best one onlt to 85mbps max.

 

I'm going to disable the DHCP for the Bluray Disc Player.

And I'm going to enable it on both the base station router upstairs and the wireless repeater downstairs.

Then I'm going to hook up the repeater again to the Bluray player and hopefully it will assign it a IP address and all the other necessary stuff.

And hopefully it will provide internet access for BD Live.