We have a Mac network guru coming in on Friday to help us out a bit..but in the mean time, i'd like to try to figure some things out on my own..for my own personal knowledge.
Our cable modem plugs directly into a Netgear JGS525 Switch. From there, we have Ethernet wires running all over the office and connecting to some Macs. So far, so good. Internet for those that are hardwired is blazing fast..as well as file transfers from computer to computer.
Our ISP has given us a range of static IP addresses. We assign each mac with its own IP address. We have about 15 static IP's we can use.
Now for the problem area.
Wireless.
It's extremely spotty and works when it wants to. There is a conflict that we can't quite find. We reset everything 10 times yesterday and it worked for 30 minutes each time and then crashed. (wired computers, still working...it's not an ISP issue)
We go from our router to an Airport Extreme Base. We assign the airport extreme with a static IP. We have two more airport extremes and an airport express set up as repeaters, which to me is odd because we shouldn't need 4 airports to get wireless to work in our office...we don't have a very big office...3 at most should be sufficient...but never seems to be. Someone never has enough signal or their internet is slow as poo.
anyway, I hope this is making sense..but the wireless internet just seems to go on and off..and we need to basically reset everything in order to get it working again, for what seems like an hour at most and then the whole wireless network crashes again.
One other odd thing is about our network printer. It will only work whenever it's plugged into the Airport Express. If we're hard wired, then that means in order for us to print, we must connect to the wireless network and then print to the Bonjour Shared printer. Can i hook up the printer via ethernet to the Switch? then, would wireless be able to find it?
Our cable modem plugs directly into a Netgear JGS525 Switch. From there, we have Ethernet wires running all over the office and connecting to some Macs. So far, so good. Internet for those that are hardwired is blazing fast..as well as file transfers from computer to computer.
Our ISP has given us a range of static IP addresses. We assign each mac with its own IP address. We have about 15 static IP's we can use.
Now for the problem area.
Wireless.
It's extremely spotty and works when it wants to. There is a conflict that we can't quite find. We reset everything 10 times yesterday and it worked for 30 minutes each time and then crashed. (wired computers, still working...it's not an ISP issue)
We go from our router to an Airport Extreme Base. We assign the airport extreme with a static IP. We have two more airport extremes and an airport express set up as repeaters, which to me is odd because we shouldn't need 4 airports to get wireless to work in our office...we don't have a very big office...3 at most should be sufficient...but never seems to be. Someone never has enough signal or their internet is slow as poo.
anyway, I hope this is making sense..but the wireless internet just seems to go on and off..and we need to basically reset everything in order to get it working again, for what seems like an hour at most and then the whole wireless network crashes again.
One other odd thing is about our network printer. It will only work whenever it's plugged into the Airport Express. If we're hard wired, then that means in order for us to print, we must connect to the wireless network and then print to the Bonjour Shared printer. Can i hook up the printer via ethernet to the Switch? then, would wireless be able to find it?