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OK. I finally haved everything in place. I have a Buffalo WHR-G54S downstairs configured as a router with my G5 (and movie collection) connected to it. I also have another WHR-G54S upstairs that i have configured as an access point with my eyehome connected to it via ethernet. The 2 routers are definitely talking to each other. But the eyehome is NOT. For one thing, it won't find whatever the default webpage is. It won't find my G5. And it also pulls in a 169.254 bogus IP address. So I cannot figure out why it is not seeing the G5.
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Turn off dhcp on the access point upstairs.
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i think dhcp is automagically off if you set the router as an access point. If it isn't, i can't see anywhere in the settings to turn it off.
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You should try plugging a computer into the access point. You could check for two things. 1) are you getting an appropriate ip address and 2) can you surf the web. I suspect you cannot do either or you'd be getting an ip address from your main router.
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As a matter of fact, thats how I tested the AP to make sure it worked. Made sure i switched from airport to ethernet first of course, than I connected my laptop via ethernet to it and was online in no time.
doesn't hurt to check again though.
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So the laptop was able to surf the net but received the wrong ip address? If that is true then there MUST be a dhcp server on that access point. Your computer can't self assign a valid ip configuration that would work.
Maybe you could just skip all this hoohaw. Setup the network setting on the eyehome manually. As long as the access point is working that would do the trick for you and would skip the dhcp issues you are having.
Dave
