[PLUG] Wifi device too far away
John Jason Jordan
johnxj at gmx.com
Mon Apr 2 00:00:41 UTC 2018
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:02:17 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>On Sat, 31 Mar 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>>The house is wired for ethernet and there is a jack in the bedroom.
>Have you considered putting a wireless access point in the bedroom,
>connected to the ethernet port? You can configure it as an access
>point and not a router so it's just another node on your LAN.
Yesterday I went to Free Geek and bought a Linksys/Cisco EA3500 router
which the employee assured me could be set up as just an access point.
He suggested using my phone to connect to it first, because someone at
Free Geek set the IP address of all their routers to 192.168.1.1, which
is the IP address of my DIR-6-something that runs my whole net life.
When I got home I did so, only to discover that Linksys/Cisco won't let
my phone touch their precious product, generating a 'your browser is
not supported' message regardless of which browser I tried. The message
also says I need to install the Android incarnation of their setup app.
Finally, in a highly annoyed state of mind, I installed their app and
then was able to get into the device's murky guts, where I changed its
IP address to 192.168.1.2.
Having done that I plugged it into the bedroom ethernet jack, only to
get no signal. So I plugged it into a jack in another part of the house
and the little light on the Linksys/Cisco lit up. I looked at at the
admin page for my D-Link and discovered that it had given the
Linksys/Cisco an address of 192.168.1.219. "You silly router" I
exclaimed. "Don't you know that the device is set to 192.168.1.2?" With
that I set up a static lease for 'Linksys' at ...2 and then restarted
the Linksys/Cisco. The D-Link admin page jumped and the line for it
changed to 'Linksys' at ...2.
So today I am troubleshooting the bedroom ethernet jack. Now, I did all
the wiring myself as I remodeled various parts of the house. There are
22 jacks all over the house, and each ends in a set of four 6-hole
ethernet jacks on a wall in my office (née dining room). There are 22
patch cords from those jacks to a 24-port switch, with a sheet that I
made for myself labeling each one. But obviously something is wrong.
While doing the wiring I acquired an ethernet continuity tester, so I
grabbed it and started testing. I got up to #12 and noted that my list
said that the location should be #11. So I made a note on my list to
fix the error and reprint it. Then I tried the patch cable for #13, but
I forgot to move the sending device to the jack assigned to #13, leaving
it in the jack for #12. Imagine my shock when the tester lit up again.
I double checked over and over, and it always lights up for either
patch cable.
I could not possibly have punched down the wires from one wall cable
into two jacks. Even I am not stupid enough to do that. Or if I did I
would certainly have documented it on my list.
How can this be?
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