trents
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Howdy folks! New here and need help with a home network issue after adding a switch.
I wanted to add some more ethernet ports to my peer to peer home network. I took an old TP Link wireless router loaded with DDWRT firmware that I had laying around. I disabled the wireless radio to turn it into a switch using this tutorial: How To Use a Router To Add Network Ports - SmallNetBuilder
I have two machines connected to this switch: one running Windows XP and one running Windows 7.
The problem I have is that the two computers that are downstream from the switch can see and communicate with each other but not with other computers on the home network. Sharing is turned on for all machines and all have the same workgroup name. Discovery is turned on for the Windows 8.1 machine that is connected to the Comcast Gateway device. The new switch and the gateway device have different IPs.
Is there any other info you need?
How can I get the machines on the upstream and downstream sides of the switch to see each other?
Thanks
I wanted to add some more ethernet ports to my peer to peer home network. I took an old TP Link wireless router loaded with DDWRT firmware that I had laying around. I disabled the wireless radio to turn it into a switch using this tutorial: How To Use a Router To Add Network Ports - SmallNetBuilder
I have two machines connected to this switch: one running Windows XP and one running Windows 7.
The problem I have is that the two computers that are downstream from the switch can see and communicate with each other but not with other computers on the home network. Sharing is turned on for all machines and all have the same workgroup name. Discovery is turned on for the Windows 8.1 machine that is connected to the Comcast Gateway device. The new switch and the gateway device have different IPs.
Is there any other info you need?
How can I get the machines on the upstream and downstream sides of the switch to see each other?
Thanks