presleyhome Posted April 18, 2005 CID Share Posted April 18, 2005 I thought I would show the settings I have used that work great for me. I wanted to have a Hardware Firewall like I use at home. Just my preference to firewall with hardware. The DW system is at a second place we are at 3 days a week (getaway). Hope to retire there some day. I also wanted to have an access point so we can use the laptop wireless, as well as let a neighbor have access when she does email. So this is what I have: Plug your PC into the Firewall only, don't have anything else connected. Set these with your PC plugged into one of the LAN ports on the Firewall with a standard straight-through cat5 cable.. Netgear FR114P Firewall / Print Server. Basic settings menu. Internet IP address setup. Static IP of 192.168.0.2 Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 Gateway IP of 192.168.0.1 DNS Address heading checkmark - Use these DNS Servers 192.77.116.8 198.77.116.12 LAN IP address setup. IP address of 192.168.1.1 Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 checkmark - Use Router as DHCP Server Starting address of 192.168.1.10 Ending address of 192.168.1.254 Save these settings. Then plug the DW6000 into the Firewall WAN port using the cable that was previously used to connect the DW6000 to your computer. It is the cable that came with the DW6000. The "uplink" switch on the Firewall should be set at the "normal" position. Power cycle the Firewall and It should then alow you access from the PC to the DW6000. Netgear WG602 wireless access point You will need to setup the access point without it connected to the firewall, so either use a wireless computer to access it stand-alone, or plug your computer directly to the access point. Basic settings menu Internet IP address checkmark - Get dynamically from ISP DNS checkmark - Get automatically from ISP WAN Setup menu checkmark - Get automatically from ISP LAN Setup menu IP address set to 192.168.0.4 Subnet mask set at 255.255.255.0 Chechmark - Use Router as DHCP Server Starting address of 192.168.0.10 Ending address of 192.168.0.51 Save the settings and log out. Then plug your PC back into the Firewall LAN port, and also plug the Access Point into a firewall LAN port, from the Access Point WAN port. Standard cat5 cable. Power cycle everything and you are good to go. Really works well. I know there are MANY other ways that you could do this, but this worked for me and I have no problems at all. I do limit the Access Point to only accept connections from the MAC address of the laptop, so the whole river can't use my connection. Thanks for listening. Jim P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted April 18, 2005 CID Share Posted April 18, 2005 If this works for people, i might sticky it... it looks loke a good guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oleol Posted April 21, 2005 CID Share Posted April 21, 2005 But what do you get for speeds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
presleyhome Posted April 21, 2005 Author CID Share Posted April 21, 2005 This stays pretty consistent so far. ::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1003 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 122 kB/s Tested From:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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