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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Cat 5 is always capable of gigabit speeds. Gigabit ethernet was designed specifically to work on Cat 5 cable.
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I don't think that's correct, I think there's plenty of poorly made CAT5 cables that are within the CAT5 spec but won't handle gigabit very well. Especially for longer cables. I've certainly seen it first hand, where swapping a CAT5 to a CAT5e has turned a 100Mbit link to a gigabit.
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Originally Posted by smallclone
Sweet.
I was under the impression I had to make a wired connection to a pc at some point, but wired to router is easier.
Now to find out how to get to the settings page  |
On your asus, you're able to define the DHCP lease range and the subnet mask and all that. I'm going to assume that you have a subnet of 255.255.255.0 and your network starts at 192.168.1.1 (The IP of the Asus). I'm assuming this as this is the default. That subnet means any IP ranging from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254 can talk to each other.
What you should do is adjust the DHCP lease on your Asus to only issue IP's in a range smaller than this. For me, I'd set this so that DHCP leases start a .10 and end at .254, so the router will never ever allocate an IP below 192.168.1.10.
Then, log into your second router (access point), disable DHCP and give it a static IP outside of the DHCP range but inside the subnet, i.e. if using the example above, give it a static IP of 192.168.1.2 - so your router is on 1.1, your AP is on 1.2 and if you ever add a second AP, you can put it on 1.3 and so on.
This way, you'll never get a clash of IP's and you'll always be able to access the config page of your access points. Simples.
After that, all you need to do is plug a cable between the router an the access point. It doesn't matter which port the cable goes in (As long as it's not the WAN port on the Asus - that's just for your modem).