I'm stumped. My room's internet connection is through an RJ45 socket and I use a cable to connect my laptop.
If I want to have an internet connection on more than one device, I either have to use a hotspot or disconnect my laptop. So what I thought was a good idea was to buy a router and an RJ45 to RJ11 cable and directly connect it to the router to get WiFi.
But it's not working and the router can't even detect that I've plugged the cable. What on earth can the reason for this be? As far as I understand it, if I plug any laptop or device to the RJ45 socket on the wall, it'd have internet almost instantly, but this isn't working for the router!
Any ideas?
Landon Cox
Not your personal tech support
Brandon Green
You want a RJ45 - RJ45 cable. That should be enough to solve your problem. I'm not here to give tech support
Zachary Walker
You'd need a switch it hub not a router. If you want WiFi, an access point but get advice before buying
Joseph Brown
Switch or hub that should be!
Adrian Perry
The router's RJ45 ports are for sharing to other devices, not providing internet for the router itself.
A hub or switch huh, I'll see if the router supports these. It probably does, but it's weird that it can't even detect having had an RJ11 cable plugged into it.
Jose Morgan
I'll bite.
I suspect you have a network collision. Disable dhcp on your router, set the router IP to a unique host address on the network and use ONLY the LAN ports. Your WAN port should be empty. This will disable nat and make the router act strictly as a switch + wireless access point.
Now, leave this board and never come back ever again.
Evan Edwards
Yes it is you fucking moron, you just have to disable dhcp on the router. Seriously, this is like a 5 minute Google search, why are you asking this on Sup Forums also /sage
Jackson Brooks
By router IP, I mean the "network LAN" IP address.
Owen Jackson
read this OP
Julian Jackson
Router should be works, he put into lan port (sometimes it says 1234 etc) non wan and disable dhcp. I have 3 routers act as both wireless access point and ap.
Ryder Rodriguez
I assigned DHCP relay to the actual DHCP server address from hen I directly connected the laptop via RJ45 and assigned the IP for my laptop and all the other details (e.g. default gateway, subet mask etc.) to the router (disconnected the laptop from the cable) and it still didn't work. Any other ideas Einstein?
No luck.
I try disabling DHCP and just assigning a unique address to the router, the same details as my laptop had when I connected it directly to the wall RJ45 socket. Didn't work either... and the router is in wireless ap mode.
Joseph Stewart
IT'S CALLED A SWITCH -- BUY ONE
Adrian Cooper
Shouldn't the guy be able to plug the wall internet into the WAN port, then have it work with no configuration?
Dylan Smith
Literally what I thought but apparently not.
Camden Young
Human Sciences student to the rescue;
what you need is most likely a "twisted" or "crossover" ethernet cable that'd connect the wall socket and your router, not a regular rj45 that connects computer to the router. I can't explain it well,but there are two types of cables. Good luck.
Tyler Jackson
Is this really Sup Forums ? I'll list your options: 1. switch: but this give you only the ability to connect more devices through cable; (hub is the same but with collisions). 2. Access point, no more cable, but you'll have your own wifi; 3. Same as 2 but with more ports (1 to the socket, the others to your devices). 4. Router with no modem or with the capability to set a rj45 port to wan; 5. Normal router, connected through an rj45 port, disabled DHCP and IP set in the same subnet of the existing network (the less elegant solution).
There are other options like switch+ap and so on...
Personally I think that: Access point is the easiest; Router with no modem will let you have your own private network (but you are behind 2 NATs).
Ethan Hall
Just change the VLAN settings on your router, dumb idiot. Why are you even on Sup Forums?
David Rivera
what is roaming: the post.
Jayden Hall
Battery & limited bandwidth & data cap. That's actually what I'm doing but I prefer not to for a good number of reasons.
k
I tried 5 and it's the simplest solution for me since I already have a router that can act as a wireless access point (or normal router), but even though I set the proper subnet mask/dhcp server address/ip address/dns servers, it just didn't work.
Will try again. But yeah basically those are all I can try which I'll do. Thanks a million!
Adam Green
ive setup my router as bridge to add more wifi hotspots to my house.
This just depends on the router, but plug it, and enable wifi and see if it works, if not then dig in the router settings and look for something you can use
Samuel Gray
OP is a retard trying to use an ASDL modem/router
Jason Johnson
Wait what? Can't you just connect the magic RJ45 cable on the wall into a wireless router or an even simpler thing like picture so you can turn that magic signal from the cable into magic wireless signal?
How old are you? Are you in some sort of college frat and too drunk to understand what wireless is?