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663270 2008-04-28 06:29:00 Hey everyone. I have a wired broadband connection (slingshot) on the router (dynalink RTA1335).

I got a DSE wireless access point, I connected the wireless access point with a ethernet cord to my wired router and installed this DSE software which is suppose to detect some sort of IP thing but it just doesn't seem to work. I bought this second hand so don't have much knowledge or documents.

Am I connecting this access point the wrong way? Thanks.
CaptainVincent (76)
663271 2008-04-28 06:31:00 www.dse.co.nz

Also here is a document I found, It mentions plugging it into my PC with some sort of crossover cable?
CaptainVincent (76)
663272 2008-04-28 06:37:00 This is a crossover or the adapter (en.wikipedia.org)

Altho this may or may not be needed, depending on what kind of ethernet cable youre using

Did you see this wireless AP in action / working?? Since its 2nd hand?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
663273 2008-04-28 07:20:00 It mentions something about using a cat 5 or cat 6 crossover cable to connect to my computer? Why is this? CaptainVincent (76)
663274 2008-04-28 07:22:00 It mentions something about using a cat 5 or cat 6 crossover cable to connect to my computer? Why is this?

Because thats what an ethernet cable is called. CAT6 would be better

If you havent got one, then what are u using?

It'll probably be better to get an AP/modem/router in one. It'll be easier to figure out
Speedy Gonzales (78)
663275 2008-04-28 07:44:00 If you are using default settings on every thing, the reason the Wireless Access point wont work is because you have the wrong address range.

The dynalink RTA1335 , by default has a range of 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255.

The DSE wireless access point according the manual posted above, needs a range of 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255, with the default being 192.168.0.254
wainuitech (129)
663276 2008-04-28 07:54:00 It should work with an ordinary Ethernet cable going to your router. Reset the access point to factory settings, then set up a static ip address on your computer in the 192.168.0 range so you can access the WAP. Greven (91)
663277 2008-04-28 07:57:00 It mentions something about using a cat 5 or cat 6 crossover cable to connect to my computer? Why is this?


Because thats what an ethernet cable is called. CAT6 would be better

A standard ethernet cable is a patch cable not crossover these are wired sightly differently.
stormdragon (6013)
663278 2008-04-28 08:08:00 Well I do know that Speedy Gonzales (78)
663279 2008-04-28 08:09:00 A standard ethernet cable is a patch cable not crossover these are wired sightly differently.Yes, however it's very, very rare these days to get consumer hardware* that doesn't have auto-sense ports - this means that it should quite happily use either.

*Excluding NICs
Erayd (23)
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