[lechav]

Have this project in mind and my first configurations didn't work:
ISP with 2wire homeportal wireless modem router.

2wire Homeportal:
2WIRE Homeportal
WAN PPoE (user name , passwd)
SSID Rt2w
wep 64
DHCP on
NAT on
IP 192.168.1.1
1 PC DHCP etehrnet to router
1 laptop-g DHCP


BEFW11S4 v3(Linksys wireless router):
Linksys Wireless DSL router AP
SSID Links1
wep 64
DHCP off
nat off
static IP
192.168.1.2
Gateway 192.168.1.1 (2wire Homeportal IP)
two ip cameras 192.168.1.115 and 192.168.1.116 working oviously just in Intranet, so wish to access from WAN.
1 PC 192.168.1.4
need Internet access (wish to use Homeportal WAN)

both working as router


How I said didn't work , i tried same SSID and wep, neither work

Any idea what to do to make it work, do i need aditional hardware?
By the way it isn't possible to cabling, so i wish to make it wireless.

Any help ,will be really appreciated.
Thanks,
lechav.

[Capricorn]

What you are really trying to do is use a wireless network to bridge two wired networks. You'd really want to use a wireless bridge for that. Look at the Linksys WET54G Wireless Bridge for an example of one. Download the User Guide PDF and take a look at it. You'll see pictures and words describing something very similar to your setup. You could also use the Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Point to do that because it can be set to operate in Wireless Bridge mode. (I mention that because I can find the WAP54G for about 1/2 of the cost of the WET54G.) Regardless of which you choose, you will also want to pick up a small Ethernet switch (as they only supply one Ethernet port). There is a WET54GS5 with a built in 5-port switch, but it costs like 2 & 1/2 times the WAP54G. (I could by an 8 or even 16 port switch for the difference in cost.)

The two router/firewall/switch/WAP combo boxes will likely never work the way you want. (I used to have the BEFW11S4, and I'm pretty certain there is no way to set it up to be a bridge to another WAP. I don't know anything about the 2Wire box, but I'd guess it's probably even less flexible than the Linksys one.) Understand that WAPs by their design try to be the controllers of the wireless network in their range. You're trying to put two controllers in the same wireless network. By design, data transmitted by one controller will be ignored by all other controllers. The Linksys WAP I mentioned and the Linksys wireless bridge will become a slave to (i.e., bridge) another WAP and pay attention. (Not all WAPs will do that either.)