I was browsing the forums and I got into a thread about 2 routers connection to the robot,
one router for the laptop and one for the robot.
It seems that it might have better communication that way and I’d like to try it.
How can I do it?
I have one D-Link router and a linksys router.
The original 2009 KOP router was a bridge only (“Gaming Adapter”), and the KOP came with a Linksys router (I want to say WRT610N or 160N but I could be wrong). The robot ‘gaming adapter’ acted as a Bridge (as it does in competition now), and the other router hosted the network. The laptop could either join the network as well or connect to the router via Ethernet.
We still use that Linksys router with an ethernet cable to the laptop to avoid any confusion about which laptop should be connected to the robot, since we frequently have several laptops capable of running Driver Station open, and any number of them could have left it open. The laptops are not configured to look for the wireless ‘33’. It’s also possible to place the router somewhere where the signal is better, but this is likely marginal.
We also have a D-link rev A (no longer legal) which we keep configured for this network setup, so we don’t have to change it every time we go to competition and setup WPA.
Configuration:
-Setup the D-link robot side router to be in ‘bridge’ mode (move the switch to ‘Bridge’), and set the SSID to your team number. We set security to none, it’s easier this way. The IP of the router should already be 10.te.am.01
-Setup the router (it can be another D-link robot router or a different one) to ‘AP’ or ‘Access Point’ mode, if it supports multiple modes. Set the SSID to your team number, no security. Set the IP address to 10.te.am.04 (this was the number recommended in 09, it really dosn’t matter), if you want you can set DHCP to 10.te.am.xx block starting at 100 or something.
-DON’t setup your laptops to connect to the wifi network. This is kinda important.
-Use a physical ethernet cable to connect the laptop to the router.
Thx for the quick answer!
About the configuration of the Linksys, I get to the configuration page which looks like this:
http://i44.tinypic.com/29qkxza.png
Which IP should I change to 10.te.am.04? the red or the green?
Should it be static IP or DHCP?
(don’t pay attention to the IPs there)
If I recall correctly, the IP address in the red box defines the IP for your internet modem. The green box defines the address for the router. I say green (hey… its a 50/50 shot!).
Green.
The Red box is settings for the WAN port (“Wide Area Network”, where the router tries to get to the internet) and don’t matter at all. They can be whatever if you don’t care about The Internet (you don’t in this case).
The green box and below is the LAN port (both the physical LAN ports and the wireless ‘LAN’ port) and should be 10.33.39.4 Subnet mask should be 255.0.0.0 if possible (I don’t know if it gives you that option, if it dosnt then it’s fine as is).