Can't get network to work. Should it?

I have a laptop connected to a cable modem via ethernet router. I tried running a wireless access point off the cable modem, the cable modem into the router and then the router into the computer.
Something isn't working right. Do you think I need a wireless router or should a ethernet router work hooked into a ??wireless network?

Any help would be appreciated.

sub-t

sub-t wrote:

> I have a laptop connected to a cable modem via ethernet router. I
> tried running a wireless access point off the cable modem, the cable
> modem into the router and then the router into the computer. Something
> isn't working right. Do you think I need a wireless router or should a
> ethernet router work hooked into a ??wireless network?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

If the router isn't already a wireless router, then you need to connect
the wireless access point to the router. The setup should be:

cable modem >>router>>wap

Any computers connecting wired (ethernet) would plug into the router.

Malke
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Malke

What you do not want is multiple DHCP servers. So the cable modem first,
then the router (with a DHCP server that will serve all your network with IP
address) and then either a Wireless Access point (with no DHCP server or the
DHCP Server disabled) or you could get a Router with a built-in Wireless
access point. What you do not want is multiple DHCP servers, each DHCP acts
as a door and will block parts of the LAN above it from seeing what is under
(or behind) it.

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"Malke" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> sub-t wrote:
>
>> I have a laptop connected to a cable modem via ethernet router. I
>> tried running a wireless access point off the cable modem, the cable
>> modem into the router and then the router into the computer. Something
>> isn't working right. Do you think I need a wireless router or should a
>> ethernet router work hooked into a ??wireless network?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> If the router isn't already a wireless router, then you need to connect
> the wireless access point to the router. The setup should be:
>
> cable modem >>router>>wap
>
> Any computers connecting wired (ethernet) would plug into the router.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic"

David {MVP}