Bridge Connections no longer working

[Slime]

Hi,

I've run into an annoying little problem which I can't solve and I'm hoping someone can help.

Up until today, I have had my Revo PC in the lounge, connected to my Desktop PC in the spare room via homeplugs. As my Revo can't pick up a decent wireless signal, I've bridged the connections on my desktop which has worked absolutely fine. So my Revo is accessing the internet using my desktop's wireless.

We had a guy come out from Virgin today who upgraded our TV & Broadband and replaced our ageing modem (which I was using in conjunction with a Linksys WRT54G) for a single wireless router. I've re-configured the wireless on my Desktop which is working fine, but my Revo is no longer able to access the internet.

I'm able to see the Revo on the LAN from my desktop so the homeplugs are working fine, but when I bridge this and the wireless, I get an error on the Revo saying that Windows has detected an IP conflict. I occasionally used to get this but it didn't actually cause problems with accessing the internet on the Revo.

Once I bridge the connections, I can no longer see the Revo on the LAN and vice versa. Does anyone know what's going on? I can't see how switching a router can affect my existing connections?

Have obviously tried deleting the bridge and re doing it to no avail.

Any help or adviced greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Skidilliplop]

Bridging connections isn't a great way to do this, I would have gone for a connection sharing approach.
It's either a static IP mapping is conflicting or where bridging on DHCP the same lease is being given twice to the same adapter because of some screw up with MAC addresses.
If the bridge is set to use DHCP then disconnect both the adapters before bridging them, they should not retain and IP address with which to conflict, then connect them both once bridged.
That should sort the problem. But longer term you might want to review the setup a bit.

 

[Slime]

Bridging connections isn't a great way to do this, I would have gone for a connection sharing approach.
It's either a static IP mapping is conflicting or where bridging on DHCP the same lease is being given twice to the same adapter because of some screw up with MAC addresses.
If the bridge is set to use DHCP then disconnect both the adapters before bridging them, they should not retain and IP address with which to conflict, then connect them both once bridged.
That should sort the problem. But longer term you might want to review the setup a bit.

Thanks very much, I set up connection sharing and that's done the trick nicely. Wasn't aware you could do that.

Now I have another problem. The wireless signal in my lounge is non existant but I have a spare router which I'd like to use to extend the range. When I plug this into the homeplug in the lounge, it obviously sets up a new wireless network which my Revo plugs directly into. However, I want the Revo to be connected directly to my PC on the same LAN as my PC houses all my media.

Does that make sense? I just want everything to be on one network instead of 2.

 

[Skidilliplop]

Set the LAN IP to something in your existing subnet and turn of DHCP etc on the spare router, plug one of the *LAN* ports into your homeplugs. This will basically make it a dumb Access point. Then set the wifi up with the same SSID, security and passwords as the existing wireless, only set it on another channel at least 5 channels apart from the current network.

That will allow devices to roam happily between the routers.

 

[Slime]

Set the LAN IP to something in your existing subnet and turn of DHCP etc on the spare router, plug one of the *LAN* ports into your homeplugs. This will basically make it a dumb Access point. Then set the wifi up with the same SSID, security and passwords as the existing wireless, only set it on another channel at least 5 channels apart from the current network.

That will allow devices to roam happily between the routers.

Worked like an absolute charm. Thank you very, very much!