Wild guess: your WL-HDD does not get access to the wireless LAN (eg. due to WEP-settings or MAC-filtering), so it will go into AP mode and through DHCP screw up the wireless settings of the clients in the network if they are auto-roaming?
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Hello there guys!!!
I cannot tell you how much happy I feel now that I've found your forum, so that I hope to get (and offer) all the support I may need!!!
I have just got dissapointed by ASUS support for my WL-HDD, since there is NO official support site in my country and the closest support site, to which I should go to in case of troubleshooting, is in Italy!!!
Now, with my problem:
I have 1 desktop, 2 laptop, and 1 PDA using my home network...
The Desktop PC is using both Wi-Fi & Ethernet 10/100 interface for networking. Through Wi-Fi, I get access to My D-Link 900AP+ Wi-FI AP/Router, which, through an Ethernet cable is connected to my Thomson Speedtouch ADSL Modem (pretty good one!)...
The IP range for Wi-Fi set-up is 10.0.0.xxx, with net mask 255.0.0.0. The gateway used, is my ADSL modem's IP address.
The Ethernet network, using a D-Link switch, uses the range 192.168.1.xxx, and is used (for the moment) only to access my Ethernet capable Hewlett Packard 2610 Multi-Printer-Scanner...e.t.c...machine.
I have bought the WL-HDD, only to use it as a Wi-Fi hard drive, accessible by all computers.
Unfortunatelly, after using the Ethernet cabling to set it up, I either will, have the ability to access my WL-HDD through Ethernet (ofcourse), but, I will loose all my access to Internet (through Wi-Fi) ofcourse.
If now, I disconnect my Ethernet cable from my WL-HDD, I can get access to Internet, but, no longer to my WL-HDD...
Funny huh???
...Now, the realy funny part:
I have noticed that keeping messing up with my network had just resulted in not allowing me to access (AT ALL!!!) my Wi-Fi network, but, only if I was choosing to completely de-activate the Ethernet connection on my desktop PC!!!
Anyway, now that I am that close to throwing my 40 GB WL-HDD to the sea, is there anyone to help me out?
Many thanks for your time and help!!!
Wild guess: your WL-HDD does not get access to the wireless LAN (eg. due to WEP-settings or MAC-filtering), so it will go into AP mode and through DHCP screw up the wireless settings of the clients in the network if they are auto-roaming?
Thanks very much for your interest!!!
The only DHCP server active in my network, is my ADSL modem. It only assigns my AP/Router (of D-Link with a single IP address!!!).
No MAC, WEP or any other filtering or access control method is used, as I just wanted to keep things simple, till I find a solution....
All other clients in the network are using static IP...
Any other Ideas????
Thanks!
...Thanks to the post of another member of the forum (for a similar case of his) I managed to make it work.
Anyway,
Thanks a lot for the help,.
It would be nice to future people having this same problem, if you gave a short description of what worked for you (or at least to another post that does)...