Steve Maskery
Established Member
Yes, I figured it would make a decent COSHH cupboard.
Too true Pete.Racers":1g4h15w1 said:simple things get quite complicated sometimes don't they!
Pete
Baldhead":3e35akme said:So CAT5 modules, TP-Link box, AP, TY video and Edimax box are all double Dutch to me, however IP address I believe means Internet Provider?Racers":3e35akme said:simple things get quite complicated sometimes don't they!
Pete
Steve your post made me laugh (something I haven't been doing a lot of lately), I didn't and still don't have a clue what your on about, but I'm pleased you got it sorted.
Steve as Eric says :wink:Eric The Viking":2yepmn2w said:Well done Steve and Pete!
As you know, those little Edimax things have almost driven me nuts (as in 'ran over a dead cat and almost killed it') in the past. They're handy problem solvers, but it's annoying that they default to a temporary, 'silly' subnet. The moment you save settings, they'll switch subnets, so even though they're now on your 'normal' subnet, your temporarily-configured PC won't be looking in the right place.
In due course, if you can get a cable from the workshop directly into the back of the cable/ADSL modem (in the house) it will be quite a bit faster.
Also, given that the workshop is fairly "leaky" in terms of WiFI getting out, for security it would be sensible to give your router a list of permitted MAC addresses for the devices you intend to use on your network, and block everything else. That should stop any little local oiks sitting in their back bedrooms with Pringles cans and using your bandwidth to download snuff movies. Also turn off "SSID broadcast" on the repeater down in the workshop. You'll have to manually enter the SSID on client devices (one time only - it's stored), but it means there's no WiFi network name to be discovered by anyone searching. It doesn't add any security, but it does deter casual hackers.
E.
PS:
You can work around the 'lost-the-box' issue by temporarily giving the PC a static IP address and changing the netmask (see below) so that it can 'see' both the temporary subnet for the box and your usual one, together. Once you're done, you just put the PC back to it's normal settings.
Most PC netmasks default to either nothing at all or 255.255.255.0 , so they will only 'see' the subnet of their own IP address. That means, if your home network is 192.168.1.xxx, the PC will only connect directly to anything in the address range:
192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255 (some of these are 'reserved,' but you get the idea).
For everything else it needs to use a router - which can't help in this specific case.
IIRC, those Edimax boxes start off on 192.168.2.xxx, so, unmolested, the laptop can't see them.
Changing the laptop's mask (n.b. NOT its IP address!) to "255.255.0.0" should let it connect directly to stuff on all subnets starting 192.168.xxx.xxx.
To find the Edimax box (or whatever-it-is - lots of stuff works this way), you'll still need to type the box's new IP address into the browser's URL bar once you've saved its settings, but it should then connect without issues (he said, naively). Once you're done, just go back to "Choose an IP address automatically", or whatever.
No, I don't know why it needs all this fussing about, either!
NO. I thought IP meant Internet Provider, I even got that wrong :lol:morfa":12ydk5ar said:Baldhead":12ydk5ar said:So CAT5 modules, TP-Link box, AP, TY video and Edimax box are all double Dutch to me, however IP address I believe means Internet Provider?Racers":12ydk5ar said:simple things get quite complicated sometimes don't they!
Pete
Steve your post made me laugh (something I haven't been doing a lot of lately), I didn't and still don't have a clue what your on about, but I'm pleased you got it sorted.
Warning, boring glossary for the non-technical.
The IP in IP address stands for Internet Protocol. Which is a number assigned to a device connected to a network. The number is represented in a human readable form called dotted decimal, which would look something like this - 192.168.1.100.
CAT5 is the cable and the module is the box which provides the plugs to plug the cable into. AP is Access Point, which is a wireless access point, which forms part of the wireless network. TP-Link and Edimax are companies which sell networking equipment.
ISP is Internet Service Provider (eg Sky, Talk Talk etc).
Hope you found some of that interesting/useful.
kostello":2qtx4qqx said:It means that he can spend all day watching videos of cats instead of work........
Just like me.!!!!!!
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