My fatherinlaw has a huge house. He is trying to set up a network. So he asked me to help him and I'm having trouble helping him because of some of the components he wants to use. The only problem I'm having is connecting wirelessly. So any help will be helpful. Here goes:

 

first off he has a cable modem-works great. Then from it he connected a wired linksys router then from it he has connected a switch box. Now the switch box has Cat-5s coming out of it and going to various areas in the house so people can plug up hard-wired wherever they want in the house. Plugging up hardwired is working great. One of the Cat-5s from the switch is going to a wireless linksys router. That's where the problem is i can't get my computer or anyone else's to get online wirelessly. There is no encryption on the network as of yet. Everything is open. On the computers we can see the network profile and we connect to it just fine but we can't get online. The connectivity is running full on (54Mbps). I get a valid IP. Now i can take the Cat5 out of the wireless router and plug directly to the computer and i can online no problem. That's my dilemma.

 

so in short it's modem>wired router>switch>wireless router and still can't online wirelessly. So if any of this makes sense to anyone i would greatly appreciate it.

 

-Joey-