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WiFi Router as Client - What Am I Doing Wrong?

OK, I'm using a Zyxel P-330W router essentially as a wireless card for my computers to conect to the remote wireless access point. I understand that this is possible with this router in client mode.

OK, I can get the remote AP (weakly) with a PCI card in the main computer and get Internet (flakily). I've pulled that card.

With the router, I can get a much better wireless connect to the remote AP, but I cannot get the computer, which is connected to the router by an Ethernet cable, to access the Internet via the router to the remote AP.

Intuitively, I suspect that there's something amiss with the IP assignments.

Here are the readouts from my router's diagnostic screens while connected to the remote AP.

Can you tell what I'm doing wrong here?

Thanks for any help!

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Uptime: 0day:0h:26m:49s Firmware Version: P-330W_V1.5 Wireless Mode: Infrastructure Client < Should that be "Ad Hoc"? Band: 2.4 GHz (B+G) SSID: linksys < that's the remote AP Channel Number: 6 Encryption: Disabled BSSID: 00:16:b6:d7:8f:ab State: Connected LAN Connection Method: Fixed IP Physical Address: 00:13:49:2a:65:3d IP Address: 192.168.1.1 Network Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server: ON DHCP Start IP Address: 192.168.1.33 DHCP Finish IP Address: 192.168.1.65 Internet Connection Method: DHCP Physical Address: 00:13:49:2a:65:3f IP Address: 192.168.1.70 Network Mask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254

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Wireless ISP Operation Mode

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Internet Connection Method: DHCP

Internet IP Address: 192.168.1.70 LAN IP Address: 192.168.1.1

Network Mask: 255.255.255.0

DHCP Server: ON System Firmware Version: P-330W_V1.5

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Connection Details

Internet Connection Method: DHCP

Physical Address: 00:13:49:2a:65:3f

IP Address: 192.168.1.70

Network Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254

Uptime: 0day:0h:32m:38s

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Perplexed
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On 22 Jun 2006 09:12:28 -0000, snipped-for-privacy@See.Comment.Header (Perplexed) wrote in :

No -- Infrastructure Client is what you want.

You probably want DHCP turned OFF, with the router working just as a bridge, not as a router.

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John Navas

That's what I suspected. Will do.

So, "Wireless ISP Operation Mode" isn't right?

I don't think "Bridge Mode" worked, but I'll try again and see how it goes later tonight. There are "Gateway," "Bridge" and "Wireless ISP" modes available.

Thanks for your help.

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On 22 Jun 2006 21:44:13 -0000, snipped-for-privacy@See.Comment.Header (Perplexed) wrote in :

I don't know what invented marketing phrase really means.

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John Navas

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