OT Router as access point

http://imgur.com/a/CI9oT

Page 1 is the basic settings for my router.
I turned off DHCP and also set the IP address to 192.168.1.2 and I
have also tried 192.168.1.10

On page 2 which is the advanced page I have also tried .2 and .10

The default gateway I have always used .1

I tested the setup both times and it worked for a while.

What happens is that is seems to work, but when I shut down my Main
computer for the night, when I turn it on the next day it is not
connected to the Internet. The main router is in my room and it feeds
a switch in the basement that feeds more rooms and one of those rooms
has the spare router I want to convert to an access point. If I
unplug the cable that feeds the switch and then the router and reboot
my machine, it will connect to the Internet and I can then plug back
in the switch and it works again.

The main router, the only changes I made was to change the range to
..100 to .199

http://imgur.com/lm75diA

I just reset the "access point" router back to factory settings.
I set the local IP address to 192.168.1.2
Turned off DHCP.

I went to the advanced routing page.
Set the Operating Mode to "Router"
Destination LAN IP to 192.168.1.10 and the router changed it to
192.168.1.0
Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0 The router tried to change it to
255.255.10.0 but it reverted back to 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway is 192.168.1.1

I saved settings and tested it. It is working like I expect it to,
but I have the feeling that when I turn my computer off tonight and
turn it back on tomorrow, it will be broken again.

Any other suggestions?

BTW the room that has the main router is the only computer that is
ahead of the 8 port switch.

On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:48:05 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote:

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:05:57 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote:

http://imgur.com/a/CI9oT

Page 1 is the basic settings for my router.
I turned off DHCP and also set the IP address to 192.168.1.2 and I
have also tried 192.168.1.10

On page 2 which is the advanced page I have also tried .2 and .10

The default gateway I have always used .1

I tested the setup both times and it worked for a while.

What happens is that is seems to work, but when I shut down my Main
computer for the night, when I turn it on the next day it is not
connected to the Internet. The main router is in my room and it feeds
a switch in the basement that feeds more rooms and one of those rooms
has the spare router I want to convert to an access point. If I
unplug the cable that feeds the switch and then the router and reboot
my machine, it will connect to the Internet and I can then plug back
in the switch and it works again.

The main router, the only changes I made was to change the range to
.100 to .199

http://imgur.com/lm75diA

I just reset the "access point" router back to factory settings.
I set the local IP address to 192.168.1.2
Turned off DHCP.

I went to the advanced routing page.
Set the Operating Mode to "Router"
Destination LAN IP to 192.168.1.10 and the router changed it to
192.168.1.0
Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0 The router tried to change it to
255.255.10.0 but it reverted back to 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway is 192.168.1.1

I saved settings and tested it. It is working like I expect it to,
but I have the feeling that when I turn my computer off tonight and
turn it back on tomorrow, it will be broken again.

Any other suggestions?

BTW the room that has the main router is the only computer that is
ahead of the 8 port switch.

At the top of the general page in your posted image you have it set to "Automatic configuration - DHCP" What
are the other available settings?

On your primary router, the one acting as a DHCP server, have you reserved the address of the access point and
assigned it to the MAC address of the access point? If you cannot reserve the address, then assign the access
point an IP address outside the DHCP IP address range of the primary router, for example, let the primary
router assign addresses in the 192.168.1.50 - 100 range and assign the access point an IP address of
192.168.1.2 - 49 or 192.168.1.101 - 254 .

Let me know if this helps.

Well today when I turned on my computer it had Internet access. That
could be good news. Thanks everyone.

On 15/08/2015 12:54 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
Well today when I turned on my computer it had Internet access. That
could be good news. Thanks everyone.

I don't think we did anything. ;-)

What you were originally doing, seemed like it should work, it would've
been pretty much what I would do too. Why it would stop working, I
suspect had to do with other factors besides the routers. Perhaps, the
switch itself was having problems?

BTW, instead of spooling Ethernet cabling throughout the house, I
would've used a Powerline Ethernet connection.

Yousuf Khan