Using A Router As An Access Point

[Chrispy]

Hey all, here's the setup I have in my house.

We have 3 hard-wired ethernet jacks in our walls which are all connected to computers....they all travel to the basement to a switchbox, where I have a linksys 4-port router....internet works fine throughout the house. I have a notebook PC with wireless capabilities, and I have a wireless router. I cannot simply switch the routers in the basement, because then the wireless access point is too far from my bedroom, and the signal doesn't work...

So what I would like to do is set up the router as an access point somewhere else on the network, like at one of the wall-jacks....

Do I leave the Router in it's current setup? Like, keep the DHCP server enabled? Or do I disable that.....basically all I want the Router to do is act like a switch.....as there will be one desktop plugged into it, and then of course wireless users...


The router in question is the D-Link DI-614+

If any of you's can offer any suggestions it'd be great....sorry if this didn't make any sense either, i'm tired...

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mad_Pyro]

Try the networking forum.

 

[Morpheus256]

turn dhcp off, plug lan into lan, using an x-over or uplink port, dont use the wan port, set the ip addy of the "router" to that of your network.