expand network, how?

turbotoes · 22 Nov 2006 at 14:13

Ok, I currently have a netgear DG834G in my office (in barn), connected to this are two (work) pc's (cabled) and 1 laptop (wifi) and a longish cable that goes to the house where it plugs into an ethernet hub, which our games pcs are plugged into (allowing adsl access and lan gaming) What I want to do is replace the plain hub in house with something that will do both wired and wifi. I'm thinking I could buy a second DG834G and replace the hub with that, but I have no idea if that would work? So experts, Would it? or is there another option? if needed I will ditch the netgear and buy two new bits of kit to make this work.
Thanks in advance

Turbotoes

airchie · 22 Nov 2006 at 14:22

I think you just need to get a wireless access point for the house and plug it into the switch.

Clarkey · 22 Nov 2006 at 14:44

as he said, you do actually have a switch and not a hub, right?

turbotoes · 22 Nov 2006 at 15:40

Err, no it's a hub. Hence me calling it a HUB

How about I dump the hub and stick a netgear WGPS606 print server on the end of the lan cable? its got 4 lan ports (auto uplink) and wifi.

anybodys idea of a good time? :confused:

pinkegobox · 22 Nov 2006 at 16:32

i'm currently doing something similar with two dg834's (although the print server should run fine).

first dg834 runs internet/dhcp/firewall/wifi-accesspoint

cable to second one that is just being used as a switch (dhcp turned off).

works fine (and significantly faster than the hub i had before). however, i'm only doing this because i had a second one lying around as opposed to buying a simple switch.

you could easily run an ap on both, but the netgear website reccomends using a different ssid and channel on both.

Guide-Tastic Link

Clarkey · 22 Nov 2006 at 16:35

could just plug an AP into the hub, simplest way. hubs belong in the history books though, replace it with a switch.

turbotoes · 22 Nov 2006 at 16:57

pinkegobox : thanks for the link and the info