Wireless Networking Problems

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by jtechau

I disagree with those who claim that a router is the cause of problems.

It's not the router per se that is giving you grief. It's the fact that you disregarded the explicit setup instructions and ended up with a configuration that isn't anything like what teams are expected to be using for development. All that manual fiddling about without a script makes it easy to get something a little bit off.

If you want to use DHCP in order to avoid IP conflicts, you can tell the D-Link DAP to do that for you. It's just one checkbox. Once our networking came up and functioned properly (which it did immediately with no fuss when we followed the directions), we turned on DHCP and made a couple of tweaks to the configuration. Specifically, we made it so our programming laptop would always receive 10.0.45.6 as its address and we would be able to forward Dashboard information to it easily.

Can anyone enlighten us as to how the DS manages IP configurations this year?

It manages them quite well.