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Title: HELP! DIR-655 as a access point
Post by: factorylad on October 31, 2010, 08:59:56 AM
Right... Im quite good with computers in general but cant just quite work this one out.

I have a wanadoo livebox and have 3 laptops and a blackberry all connected wireless. We have a big house and you cant get signal from one side to the other so ive bought a router (DIR-655) and want to use it as a different access point so i can use it wireless at the other side of my house. i had it working for a day then i dont know wat happened but i cannot seem to get it working again!

i have it setup like this atm;

phone socket > wanadoo livebox <via ethernet> d-link dir-655 <via ethernet> laptop.
<<<<<<<works fine>>>>>>>>>>>>>> then it will connect to the network but doesnt have internet access.

i cannot view the settings on the dir-655 because it doesnt have internet access wen it is plugged in or connected over wireless. i can connect to my wanadoo livebox fine and then as soon as i plug in the router via ethernet the internet access goes.

i dont understand y this has happened but something must have changed to stop allowing me to have internet access whilst connected to both. when i first set up the dir-655 it worked a treat, but now i cant do anything wen its plugged in, it just says no internet access.

can anybody help please?
Title: Re: HELP! DIR-655 as a access point
Post by: Lukeup on November 03, 2010, 03:33:45 PM
Hi, which one is giving you the IPs (setup for DHCP) for your devices??  Not sure what a wanadoo livebox is and how it connects to the d-link.  Sounds like you have conflicting IPs between the d-link and the wanadoo livebox.  When you say ethernet is that hard wire??  You can check out my post at http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=15661.0.  I use this setup to get to the other side of the house to the deck for a laptop.  It requires some hard wire and one wireless router setup with no DHCP.  The IPs are assigned by the dir-655.  Thanks, Luke.