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RE: why cant two computers talk via a acess point?

alex3410 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:50:31 GMT

:w00t: ah that explains it :P lol so my next plan is to get a homplug set up for my desktop (the file share PC) and connect the other end to the bthomehub :) just need to wait for next uni payment ;)

RE: why cant two computers talk via a acess point?

ricedg — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:39:47 GMT

Yes (ish), think of it ike this:
Your ADSL wireless router is actually 4 boxes in one.
ADSL modem, Router, switch and an AP.

The routers AP is the "main one".
Everything has to connect into this.
If you has a bunch of wired PCs in a remote location, you'd use a wireless bridge to connect wirelessly to the Main AP.
You'd then attach a switch to it's ethernet port, and the PCs to the switch.
You cannot attach anything wirelessly to the wireless bridge as all it can do is talk to the main AP.

If you wish to extend the range of your wirless netwrok - let's say those PCs had wirless cards in them, you'd use a repeater.
The repeater takes the signal from the Main AP and retransmits it.
It can talk both to the Main AP and the wireless PCs.

I hope this makes some sense :D

RE: why cant two computers talk via a acess point?

alex3410 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:38:15 GMT

so an access point is one thats connected to a network port on the main one?:ermm:

RE: why cant two computers talk via a acess point?

ricedg — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:06:23 GMT

For that to work the Belkin would have to be a repeater.
And you're using it as a bridge, not an Access Point.

why cant two computers talk via a acess point?

alex3410 — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:05:45 GMT

ok:
bthomehub connects to the net
belkin is a acess point to bt but it connects wirelessly to bt
my desktop connects to belkin and has file shares and a printer shared also.

my laptop can access the files and printer if its connected to BThomehub but not if its connected to belkin any reason why?