[nk1]

Ok, I've never posted in a thread before, but I can't seem to figure out the best way to set up my house network.

I have a netgear cable modem/router which has the cable company's cable screwed in.

The house came with a US Tec Router which has wired connections all over the house homerun to it and it is in the same closet as the netgear modem.

I disabled the DHCP on the US tec router and plugged in to the LAN ports between the netgear and US tec (avoided the WAN port)

The ip addresses are 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.1 for the netgear and us tec routers.

Due to the location of the closet, the wireless on the netgear has poor range- I turned it off.

I have an AEBS 802.11n which is in the middle of the house. I connected it via a LAN port to a LAN port on the Netgear, hoping to replicate what I did with US Tec.

I went to Airport Utility/ Internet Connection and turned Connection sharing to Off (Bridge Mode). I also configured the IPv4 to manual and I set up the IP address to 192.168.1.3 (in hopes that everything wired/unwired in the house could see each other) . I also changed the router address to the same address. I left the subnet mask as is.

I can get on the internet from the AEBS, Netgear and US TEc connections.

While on a US Tec connection, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. However, I cannot ping the AEBS.

While I am on a wireless AEBS, I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2. I cannot ping 192.168.1.3 again.

Also, when I go to system preferences/ network/ it says that airport is connected to the AEBS and has the IP address 172.27.35.116

Finally, if I open a finder window while on AEBS, I cannot see computers plugged into US Tec or the netgear.

This really sucks, seems complicated and has made me respect guys who know what they are doing with this stuff.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and keep me out of further trouble with my wife.

[ghporter]

Welcome to the MacNN Forums! What you want is pretty easy to do, but since it's not one of the most common things people need to do, it's not terribly obvious how to do it.

In the AirPort Utility, choose the Network tab and UNselect the "share a single IP address" option (which sets the unit to bridge mode). Now for the interesting part: turn ALL of it off/unplug power to all of it, modem, AEBS, even your computer. This is needed because often you'll find that DHCP addresses get messed up or don't get renewed when you switch the mode of one part of the network. Now start the modem/router and wait about 60 seconds. Now start the AEBS and wait about 60 seconds. Finally, restart (not just "wake" ) your computer. That should do it.

Now the AEBS is in bridge mode, and it will pass on DHCP addresses from the modem/router to all your wireless computers, so they'll be on the same network as your wired stuff.