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Is the WN2000RPTv2 a repeater
Hello I have a WN2000RPTv2 and have linked it to my wifi network. A PC connected via a cable can use the extender to connect to the internet, however non of the other devices on the LAN are accessibl...
I've been having fun with my own one of these over the last two days. I only want mine as a wired AP but it might help with what you are doing.
First is that if you use the Netgear DHCP, your dns, presented to the client, doesn't always reflect the PC's registered in your other router. However you should be able to either ping them or tracert them via IP. (Your PC C will not show in the list on the other PC's because it is not registered on your wireless router. Sadly this is how DNS repeating and multiple DHCP hosting works.)
Unless
As I have seen. Your firewall is blocking them. I have Norton 360, it's set to blackhole anything which is not authorised. So I could ping from my workstation connected to the wifi, to a pc connected on the wired network, but not the other way around even though I knew the IP address and that both machines were in the same IP class C network.
If you can see the internet, then you are being connected to the wifi router. Therefore you have an IP address and your requests are being forwarded.
So I would try the following, which Is what I had to do to turn my system into an access point.
First remove the DHCP allocation of IP address to the WN2000RPTv2
Setup->IP Address->Use Static IP Address
Allocate an address outside your wifi routers DHCP range. Ensure you use the router as the default gateway and the DNS.
Apply this and ensure it's applied by accessing your extender on the new address.
Second, disable DHCP on your extender.
Setup->IP Address->Disable internal DHCP Server
Third, release and refresh the IP address on machine C
ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew
Check that your new ip address is in the range of the wifi router DHCP and that the DNS server is set to the wifi router.
Check you can still access the internet.
You should now be able to see the other machines on the network because the extender is not your primary gateway, the wifi router is.
If you can't ping the other machines tracert them, then try turning the firewalls off on both machines and try again. I had to set the wifi network to shared in the Norton 360 network security map before I could get two way communication.
So long as your wifi router is not firewalling the wifi and wired networks, then you should be OK. Although if that were the case, you would not be able to communicate between PC's A and B.
Primarily I believe this is a network routing issue. It was how I solved my own. The extender is designed to extend the wireless internet for people in the home, in the easiest way possible. It is not designed to fully bridge two networks with a wifi connection. Although it is possible to do that, but you need to remove the extender as your default gateway as it's gateway routing configuration is designed to extend the internet, not the network at large.
Hope this helps.
First is that if you use the Netgear DHCP, your dns, presented to the client, doesn't always reflect the PC's registered in your other router. However you should be able to either ping them or tracert them via IP. (Your PC C will not show in the list on the other PC's because it is not registered on your wireless router. Sadly this is how DNS repeating and multiple DHCP hosting works.)
Unless
As I have seen. Your firewall is blocking them. I have Norton 360, it's set to blackhole anything which is not authorised. So I could ping from my workstation connected to the wifi, to a pc connected on the wired network, but not the other way around even though I knew the IP address and that both machines were in the same IP class C network.
If you can see the internet, then you are being connected to the wifi router. Therefore you have an IP address and your requests are being forwarded.
So I would try the following, which Is what I had to do to turn my system into an access point.
First remove the DHCP allocation of IP address to the WN2000RPTv2
Setup->IP Address->Use Static IP Address
Allocate an address outside your wifi routers DHCP range. Ensure you use the router as the default gateway and the DNS.
Apply this and ensure it's applied by accessing your extender on the new address.
Second, disable DHCP on your extender.
Setup->IP Address->Disable internal DHCP Server
Third, release and refresh the IP address on machine C
ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew
Check that your new ip address is in the range of the wifi router DHCP and that the DNS server is set to the wifi router.
Check you can still access the internet.
You should now be able to see the other machines on the network because the extender is not your primary gateway, the wifi router is.
If you can't ping the other machines tracert them, then try turning the firewalls off on both machines and try again. I had to set the wifi network to shared in the Norton 360 network security map before I could get two way communication.
So long as your wifi router is not firewalling the wifi and wired networks, then you should be OK. Although if that were the case, you would not be able to communicate between PC's A and B.
Primarily I believe this is a network routing issue. It was how I solved my own. The extender is designed to extend the wireless internet for people in the home, in the easiest way possible. It is not designed to fully bridge two networks with a wifi connection. Although it is possible to do that, but you need to remove the extender as your default gateway as it's gateway routing configuration is designed to extend the internet, not the network at large.
Hope this helps.