[ale] HELP, need to setup wireless access point!

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:04 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: 
> ouch, well atnex switched me over this morning to my new business class. 
> WELL, the new modem is a 4-port adsl setup with NO WIRELESS.. ( He said 
> he will ship me a new model that will replace this & have wireless, but 
> I need this to work NOW..
> what I have:
> 4-port modem connected to atnex.
> what I need is one of my 2 routers to connect to the modem to give me 
> wireless access for my laptops.

> routers:
> wrt54GL with DD-wrt on it
> wrt160N with basic cisco firmware ( don't think this one can be changed 
> to dd-wrt)

What rev of 160N?  Looks like versions 1.0, 1.1, and 3.0 are supported
while 2.0 is not.  160NL is also supported.

> I can work with EITHER, I just need instructions on how to change it to 
> an access point & work.

Use the dd-wrt and put him into bridge mode and then just plug the
internet port into one of your aDSL modem ports.

> right now my setup is modem has a local address of 192.168.10.1
> whatismyip.com says I am 65.166.136.233 ( if that matters), and Milt 
> said I have NO access to the modem, as far as admin...

No admin access to the modem?  That blows.

> thanks!

Regards,
Mike
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