Please idiot check me

Evil-I · 18 Aug 2009 at 13:06

Hi All,

Having a moment and could do with a bit of advice.

I've recently bought a pair of Netgear WG602 wireless access points for an event (main and spare). Usual scenario is the venue provides either a single cat5 cable as the internet access or a DSL router.

My sudden worry is that its an access point not a router, is there any real difference?

So for the sake of agument, the access point is set up, with a single cat5 internet connection provided by the venue. SSID and Password etc are all sorted. Is it going to be happy with multiple laptop users connecting and sharing the connection?

I just noticed on the setup doumentation it alwys shows the access point connected after a router.

Thanks for the help,

E-I

tolien · 18 Aug 2009 at 13:10

If they aren't running NAT or providing a block of public IPs and you want to connect more than one device, it won't work.

Evil-I · 18 Aug 2009 at 13:12

tolien said:
If they aren't running NAT or providing a block of public IPs and you want to connect more than one device, it won't work.

Bugger, kind of what was worrying me... It may well be down stream of a router, but won't know until on site!

Time to buy alternatives I think!

Thanks,

E-I

HazardO · 18 Aug 2009 at 13:22

You will either need your own NAT router, or you could set up one of your PCs to perform internet connection sharing (Turns the windows box into a NAT router, but you can still use the machine for other porposies). The windows machine would need 2 ethernet interfaces, one to connect to the internet, and one to a switch for the other machines.

PistolPete · 18 Aug 2009 at 13:38

Can you not ask them? I'd guess unless they need to keep things completely seperate that the feed is probably from a a router they have providing their internet feed.

Evil-I · 19 Aug 2009 at 00:37

Thanks for the replies,

Venues in Barcelona and from experience getting sensible information on broadband connection from some of our european freinds can be a little difficult.

Safest bet, new hardware! Just bought a pair of Netgear Wireless N cable routers instead. I'm not on site to troubleshoot any issues, so safest way I think.

Thanks for all the help guys!

E-I