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I'm very confused and frustrated and looking for kindly people to help me out of a hole I've dug myself into.
Here's the short version on the problem
Firstly, I wanted to create a wireless network to do a few things -
1. Connect the TV to the internet
2. Play media on my desktop on the TV and on the various devices around the house
3. Allow various devices access to my www connection
4. Use a NAS drive to let the kids back up their data and to store photos, videos etc that I could play on the TV (see 2)
So, I had a Vista desktop machine, a Buffalo WHR-G300N (No1) and a Virgin Cable connection. That all worked OK so I added another WHR-G300N (No2)to the living room and connected the TV and a little media player. No2 was set as an access point and all was well. Streaming video over the WiFi was OK but not great so I added in the Buffalo LinkStationLive and connected it to No2 in the living room. Again it all seemed fine.
I upgraded the Vista desktop to a faster machine but it came with Windows 8 (which I have to say I dislike, a lot). The network was OK but occasionally Windows 8 would refuse to see the NAS drive and I would have to reboot everything to get it to work again. I don't think I every really got the network back up and running fully after the Windows 8 machine.
Then a few weeks ago the reboot didn't work, the NAS drive went separatist on me - although the TV, NAS and No2 could all see each other they were now separated from the network.
The Windows8 machine and No1 were all happy too - they just couldn't see the Livingroom set-up.
Now I have tried almost everything I can think of to reconcile my two networks but I just can't seem to get the things to behave as I expect.
I have the old Vista machine up and running, connected it to No2 and now I can't get it to see No2 - sometimes it sees it, sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure I really know what I'm doing here but I am trying to apply some logic and I figured if I could get a separate PC to connect to No2 then I could test it but getting it to connect to No1 and therefore the internet.
I really need some helpful Guru to walk me through this and firstly figure out if my hardware is good or has died in some way, they to help me learn how to set the thing up properly. I'm quite happy to throw the lot in the garbage and start again but I think my own ignorance would come into play and I'd just end up with another expensive failure.
So, the challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to educate this ham fisted networker.
Thanks in advance for any pointers, I need them :o
I'm very confused and frustrated and looking for kindly people to help me out of a hole I've dug myself into.
Here's the short version on the problem
Firstly, I wanted to create a wireless network to do a few things -
1. Connect the TV to the internet
2. Play media on my desktop on the TV and on the various devices around the house
3. Allow various devices access to my www connection
4. Use a NAS drive to let the kids back up their data and to store photos, videos etc that I could play on the TV (see 2)
So, I had a Vista desktop machine, a Buffalo WHR-G300N (No1) and a Virgin Cable connection. That all worked OK so I added another WHR-G300N (No2)to the living room and connected the TV and a little media player. No2 was set as an access point and all was well. Streaming video over the WiFi was OK but not great so I added in the Buffalo LinkStationLive and connected it to No2 in the living room. Again it all seemed fine.
I upgraded the Vista desktop to a faster machine but it came with Windows 8 (which I have to say I dislike, a lot). The network was OK but occasionally Windows 8 would refuse to see the NAS drive and I would have to reboot everything to get it to work again. I don't think I every really got the network back up and running fully after the Windows 8 machine.
Then a few weeks ago the reboot didn't work, the NAS drive went separatist on me - although the TV, NAS and No2 could all see each other they were now separated from the network.
The Windows8 machine and No1 were all happy too - they just couldn't see the Livingroom set-up.
Now I have tried almost everything I can think of to reconcile my two networks but I just can't seem to get the things to behave as I expect.
I have the old Vista machine up and running, connected it to No2 and now I can't get it to see No2 - sometimes it sees it, sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure I really know what I'm doing here but I am trying to apply some logic and I figured if I could get a separate PC to connect to No2 then I could test it but getting it to connect to No1 and therefore the internet.
I really need some helpful Guru to walk me through this and firstly figure out if my hardware is good or has died in some way, they to help me learn how to set the thing up properly. I'm quite happy to throw the lot in the garbage and start again but I think my own ignorance would come into play and I'd just end up with another expensive failure.
So, the challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to educate this ham fisted networker.
Thanks in advance for any pointers, I need them :o