OT: Wireless network questions, know there are some network gurus here... Options

[blitZ]

I have a wireless network in my house, works great. My son has moved to our basement, two floors down from where the my router is, so don't want to run a cable. I picked up an access point, thinking I could attach a switch to it so multiple devices can connect. I want to connect his xBox and PC. Apparently, it's only possible to connect one device directly to the AP, the switch doesn't work.

The access point works fine on the xBox.

Any ideas on a simple solution?

[blitZ]

Thanks for the tips. i attempted Andy's solution, since i already have the hardware. The AP browser would not respond. I tried resetting it a few times and nothing. I may have to buy something after all. I've never tried the electrical outlet network, but my son games online and speed is important.

[SirAndy]

Thanks for the tips. i attempted Andy's solution, since i already have the hardware. The AP browser would not respond. I tried resetting it a few times and nothing. I may have to buy something after all. I've never tried the electrical outlet network, but my son games online and speed is important.

once you changed the AP to a different network, you need to use that network range to access the AP browser ...

let's say, for example, you set your AP LAN to:

AP LAN IP: 10.0.0.1
AP LAN Submask: 255.255.255.0
AP LAN DHCP Range: 10.0.0.10 - 10.0.0.100

to access the APs webpage, you MUST connect the PC to the LAN side of the AP.
your PC MUST be set to DHCP and you should verify that the settings were successful by pinging 10.0.0.1 which should give you a reply.

then use your browser with the following url:
http://10.0.0.1/

that should bring up the AP web-interface ...
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif) Andy