WL-500g AP Mode Question

[Corbin]

Hi,
Here is a diagram of my network:



I am having trouble getting this to work how I want. To my understanding, If I put the wl500g into AP mode, it should allow all of it's clients to communicate with my internet router and the clients connected to the router. Instead it only allows communication between other clients of the wl500g. I have setup similar networks with other hardware and all works well - everything on the network can communicate with everything else. Is this possible with the wl500g?

btw the router and the wl500g are connected via ethernet.

Thanks,
Corbin

[Corbin]

No one knows if this can be done?

[Randale91]

This is pretty simple:

1. connect you ASUS WAN-Port with your normal router.

2. configure your ASUS ipadress range to another subnet
e.g. 192.168.10.xxx !!! This is really important !!!
- ASUS 192.168.10.1 and the other wireless and wired clients
will receive a ip address between 192.168.10.2 and 192.168.10.254.

3. Now configure on ASUS the WAN port as the following:

I suggest your normal router IP-Adress-range is 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.254
WAN IP Adress: 192.168.1.2
WAN Netmask: 255.255.255.0
WAN Gateway: 192.168.1.1 (ip adress of the i-net router)
WAN DNS-Server: 192.168.1.1

if you dont like assigning a manual ip-adress you can leave the
auto settings of WAN Port. (then your normal router must provide dhcp!!!)

Have phun.

[Corbin]

Thanks for the reply!

I can set this up with as you have described, but what I want to do is have everything on the network on the same subnet - so every device can communicate with every other device.

From hours of trying, I have come to the conclusion that this is impossible.

[TheEagle]

I'm sure you tried but ... I can't think of a reason why this shouldn't work. If you leave the ASUS in HomeGateway mode you can't use the WAN port of the ASUS. But in AP mode (all 5 ports are bridged together) this SHOULD work. Of course you should set "AP isolated" to NO in Wireless settings. Too bad I can't rebuild your setup here, just sold my old router.