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Connect ReadyNAS Pro 6 to WLAN
For several years I have happily and successfully used a NAS, most recently a Netgear ReadyNAS Pro 6 with RAIDiator 4.2.26, mainly to store the library for iTunes and a Sonos music system (a Mac with...
What router are you using for the wired network?
I think of the wired network as being primarily attached to the NIC in my Mac. There isn't any Internet router as such - though that's not quite true, for the old Netgear MBR624GU router is still plugged into the wired network (though without any SIM card - I had hoped to use that router as a DHCP server that the Sonos devices would recognise but that didn't seem to help me).
P.S. My Internet access from the Mac is via WLAN through the Huawei router.
Internet access aside, the way to solve your problem is to extend your routing to the wired network.
One approach is to get an ethernet extender. Netgear's WN3500RP is one option. The WN3500RP will bridge to your E5577Cs-321, and you then connect the LAN port of the WN3500RP to your wired network. The E5577Cs-321 will then supply dhcp addresses to the full network (and allow internet access on the full network). You'd disconnect the MBR624GU completely.
The main limitation is that the E5577Cs-321 is limited to 10 clients (which would be wifi+wired if you use the extender).
Many thanks for the interesting suggestion. I'm not sure, though, that it would solve my problem. Sonos always says that to recognise that their system is connected to a LAN (rather than running in wireless mode), one Sonos device (amplifier) should be wired directly to the router. Maybe it would work, though, for the Sonos amplifiers have two Ethernet sockets, so I guess I could cable one amplifier to the Ethernet Extender and then link the rest of my cable network from the other socket. I am a bit concerned about being limited to 10 clients, for I have several Sonos amplifiers as well as the computer, NAS, iPad, etc.
BTW, Amazon mentions the Netgear EX6150-100PES as being a newer version of the WN3500RP. Would that do as well, be better?
I had actually been thinking of buying a router with Ethernet ports, as my old Netgear MBR624GU had, partly because I am not very happy with the Huawei router (I get 'Device disconnected' messages several times a day, though I'm not clear exactly where the problem lies, with the router, iPad/iPhone/Mac or the received signal - I have tried changing the channel the router uses this evening but I can't say yet whether that brought any improvement). I presume a router with multiple Ethernet sockets would let me have everything on the one subnet, as I had with the MBR624GU.
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