On 12 Jul 2018 20:53:48 GMT, Char Jackson wrote:

Meanwhile, sane people are left wondering what manner of
misconfiguration led to you having an outdoor transceiver *inside* your
LAN. Not connecting your LAN to the Internet, but connecting one part of
your LAN to another part of your LAN.

I'm always amazed at what people come up with when they don't really
understand how to do something. I'm being serious. Sometimes the
creativity is just something to behold.

I didn't provide enough detail for you to know that there isn't a single
device on my network outside the network (i.e., they're all on
192.168.1.x).

You can tell, actually, if you look at the screenshot, which proves that
the static IP address of the transceiver is on the same 192.168.1.x subnet:
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_pubshare07.jpg

To be a bit more precise, there is one of the many rooftop antennas that
picks up my Internet feed from a half-dozen miles away over the air from a
visible mountaintop, which is, of necessity, configured by the WISP and
which connects to the WISP's internal network of a 10.something address
where it bounces among the WISP mountaintop towers until it finally gets to
a fiber-optic cable in the ground).

But you would have no way of knowing that I happen to have about a dozen
transceivers scattered about my rather large house and property, which has
buildings that are a thousand feet from the house, all of which have
Internet access, and where here is a photo of just a handful of my radios,
for example:
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_wifi.jpg

Everyone in my area (which has no "cable") gets their Internet over the
air, and we all have cellular repeaters or towers inside our homes (I have
both a femtotower and a cellular repeater for example).

So while I don't know Windows networking, you can't survive in these hills
without some knowledge of transceivers (and water pumps, septic systems,
poison oak removal, chain saws, etc.).

As for this particular Windows PC setup, it's a desktop that doesn't have a
WiFi card, but it has an Ethernet RJ45 port, and I have plenty of spare
transceivers, so, I simply tied an Ethernet cable from the computer to an
outdoor transceiver which is pointed back at the house, only a couple
floors down.

The transceiver acts no differently than a WiFi card with an external
antenna would act, only if you look at the decibels in that screenshot,
you'll see that the WiFi signal can go for miles.

While this radio is set up as a bridge, almost all the other radios are set
up as powerful access points, where they easily send and receive to the
barn, for example, which is about a thousand feet away from the house.

In short, I have a *lot* of WiFi radios set up as access points and one as
a bridge, but all but the incoming Internet signal are on the same subnet,
where this particular bridge must be set up with a static IP address
because otherwise I wouldn't be able to easily log into it.