Having trouble connecting.

I have an Optimum cable modem at work.
Its connected to a Dlink router. From here there are several ethernet lines running out to the building and they are working fine.

One of these lines runs to a switch in our basement and everything from there is working fine.

Now I have a D-link wireless router that I want to connect to this switch. Our needs for it are simple:

-NO encryption, open for library visitors.
-want to name it
-want to put a password on the wireless router so no one messes with it.


I'm just not doing something right - can't get an IP address from the wireless router.

Suggestions?

TIA.

David

Do you want to keep the wired and wireless networks separated into different subnets, or keep them all in one? Depending on how you want to handle the actual network scheme, the wireless router needs to be setup differently.

If you want the wireless network to exist as it's own subnet, then connect the router's WAN ports to one of the switch ports, and configure the router to get either a DHCP lease or setup a static IP for it's WAN interface.

If you would rather the wireless and wired networks be one continuous subnet, then connect one of the wireless router's LAN ports to your switch, and disable the DHCP server and all routing options in the wireless router's settings.

Once you have that figured out, setting up a password on the configuration page and changing the SSID are going to be simple options on the router's configuration pages.

Its just an extension of the same wireless network.

Optimum Modem -> Router ->5 lines out through the building to wireless routers.
I have 2 others which work; if I assigned a 192.168.x.x to it, I can try to login and see what I did there. It was well over a year ago that I set those up.

I just didn't know if there were a simple step by step way of setting these up. Especially since its ONE network and no encryption.

~d